The next day we drove out of the Riverbead to Outjo, a city in Namibia where streetsellers sell Christmas ornaments made of stones or seeds and engraved with animals. We went to lunch at a restraunt where the waitress stood next to us picking her fingers. Mama went to the grocery store and there were only three shelves that were mostly bare. After that, we drove to Etosha. In Etosha, we saw a giraffe, and some ostriches. Springbok and kudus grazed in the grass, and a blockade of three cars were stopped on the road for a yellow hyenaish thing. Mama almost got out of the car to tell the blockade to move, but that would have been a bad mistake, because the yellow hyenaish thing was actually a female lion.
Can you see the lion?
It was almost dark when we got back, and if you get back after sunset, you aren’t allowed in. Once we set up the campsite, we set of for moringa waterhole, a man-made waterhole named after a succulent. When we got there, two rinos ambled out of the brush. One of them was very bossy and wouldn’t let any other rinos to come near the waterhole.
The bossy rinocerus drinking
We ran back to tell Daddy about the rinos. When he came to the waterhole, there were four rinos drinking. The bossy one fought with the other ones
The rinos fighting
The bossy rino wouldn’t let even a rabbit have a drink, so when the bossy rinocerus was distracted, the dachshunds that someone had let on the loose (these were realy jackals) and a hyena came to drink before the bossy rinocerus sent them away. After the bossy rinocerus went away, Sam got too tired to stay, so he and Mama left. After they left, a family of rinos came. The father went of to chase away the hyenas, wile the mother came to drink and the baby started nursing.
Nursing Baby
When the father failed in keeping the hyenas away, the mother put herself between the hyenas and the baby so the baby would be safe.
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