Today was our first time in three days that we where able to sleep in the morning, and we did. We hade a late breakfast at Lidiko Lodge as this place is called. We had no plans for today until the evening so we decided to try to find some hippos on our own.  We went down to the river and found some hippos laying in the water. We couldn't see anything els but the heads but it was cool when they yawned. The rest on our free time we spend on bathing, both in the pool and in the ocean.

 

At five o'clock a car picked us up and it was time to go on a turtle tour! The guid said that we either would see a turtle lay eggs or see the eggs hatch. But he wasn't sure we would see anything at all. On the beach we drove 20 kilometers without seeing anything special, just a lot of small crabs. We had dinner on the beach and then it was time to go back again. This time we found a turtle nest where a turtle had laid it's eggs yesterday. We couldn't touch it because if an egg moves just a little bit it will die. A turtle lay about 1000 eggs per season, 120 at a time,  but only on the way from the nest to the water 20% of them die. The rest often get eaten by fishes and birds or stuck in fishing webs, just a few survives. We continued and soon we saw a honey badger eating some turtle eggs. Our guid went out of the car and scared the badger away. He brought a turtle egg back to the car and we where allowed to hold it. It was soft and felt like leather. We didn't see any turtles but it still was very cool to hold an egg.

 

On our way back to the lodge our guid stopped and went out in the bush. He came back with a tiny dwarf cameleont. It is the smallest cameleont in the world and can only be found in this forest. We also saw hippos on our way home, But this time on the ground, not in the water.

 

Philip