The lay of the land

This is a pretty goo photo showing the land. Rolling hills with rock outcroppings and bluffs occasionally. Water creates creek beds, washes and drainages. Not quite desert, but also not tropical.

They've had lots of rain lately, so I assume it's not normally quite this green on the ground.

The bushes and trees are anywhere from 8 to 15 feet high. It's quite thick, when you get in amongst the bush, you really don't have much visibility. The animals can elude you very easily in the thick stuff.

We spend most of our time hiking quietly through the bush (now I know why they say 'bush': it's not really a forest or "woods") and stopping to glass hillsides or draws when we can.

Today, we've come across a lot of animals in the rainy weather; lots of Impala, a couple dozen Kudu; including two mature males that did not hang around; monkeys, bush bucks, duikers, red lechwe, numerous birds, including dark shouldered kites and a huge hawk of somekind, and we even saw a gaggle of ostriches. We got a kick out of them.

The Impala are in the rut right now, and so the males are running and fighting a lot...constantly chasing each other. They make this loud barking noise and also a hissing/wheezing noise as they harass each other...it's quite unique and very interesting.