At Lion Country

Each day, here at the Lion Country KOA Park, we take advantage of where we are and ride through the Lion Country Animal Park.  Times of day are quite different in terms of both sightings and activity of the animals.

Each morning we wake up to the echoing sounds of the lions roaring.  This starts about six-fifteen when there is just the first hint of daylight.  We figure they must be up and are trying to tell someone that they think it is time to be fed.  There is usually another big roaring time about an hour later.  Is this the time when the food actually comes?  They they roar a bit intermittently for the next hour or so and after that are quiet until the evening. We hear this clearly inside the Airstream as they have very big voices.

The dominant male blackbuck oversees his considerable herd.

The park opens at nine-thirty and they let the last people in at 4:30.  We have discovered that both ends of the day are best.  Not only do those seem to be the feeding times, but, the other visitors seem to come in the middle of the day.  We like to go first thing in the morning or late afternoon.

Wildebeests galore.  (Also called gnus.)

Trish and I are gradually learning what the animals are.  This is easy with lions, rhinos, and Watusi cattle, but more difficult with the variety of antelopes that are numerous here.  We can get a CD each day that takes us through the park and tells a lot about each animal.  We do this each day so we might at last be able to remember.

The beautiful scimitar horned oryx.

It really is fun being here.  The rest of our days are spent reading, resting, quilting and doing a bit of work to end the old year and put 2020 into action.