Cheetahs

The next day was the day we left Etosha. That night, Daddy saw a male and a female lion at the waterhole! Now we were egear for more. We drove along the lakeside, looking for waterholes, but they were all dry. We did see some ostriches on the way. Once we didn’t see the waterhole where the zebras and springbok were drinking. On the way to the end of Etosha, we saw a group of elephants cross the road in front of us.

After those elephants, we came to a waterhole that had water.

The waterhole had herds of ostriches,gemsbok and springbok

Near the exit, we climed a tower in a campground called Okaujo.

Unfortunately, this picture is sideways, but it is the tower.

We drove through scrub all the way to a town called Otjiwarongo, where we got on to a dirt road and saw a dump, a work camp, and a truckload of tree trimmers. At the end of this dirt road we found the Cheetah Conservation Fund

The cheetah conservation fund is a recovery program for cheetahs. Orphaned or injured cheetahs are found and brought to here. If the cheetahs cannot be released into the wild, it will spend its time in the cheetah conservation funds cheetah pens. We got there in time for feeding. The cheetahs stopped with what ever they were doing and ran to the place where they were to be fed.

Cheetah waiting to be fed.

After the feeding, we decided to go on the tour of the cheetah pens. We saw some old cheetahs there.

The cheetah toilet

The CCF also bred dogs and goats. Why? Because they wanted the dogs to keep the cheetahs away, not the farmer’s guns. The goats were there to help the dogs get used to the goats. They made goat cheese and ice cream out of the goats’ milk.

We came to a place on the way back from the cheetah fund, where all but one cow crossed the road and the dog that should have been helping relaxed in the bushes and watched the cow try to cross the road. The sun hid behind the clouds.

We stayed in a hotel where the guinea fowl said “no smoking.”