Dan's Adventure

Until Etosha Nature Reserve in Namibia, the nearest I had got to spotting a Rhino was a disputed grey dot in the distance, which the majority of our group, including myself believed to be a buffalo. After an evening game drive in Etosha we returned to the campsite and walked down to the flood lit watering hole before dinner. Cameras flashed as a black rhino appeared followed by another. Drinking from the water before entering it. Later that night, as we sat with beers watching the activity at the watering hole we saw a total of three black rhinos. This was followed the next day on our morning drive by two more and then six at the same time at the watering hole in the evening. The quality of the watering hole pictures isn’t great as the Panasonic Lumix TZ5 doesn’t perform well in low light situations, the rhinos were perhaps 20-25 metres from where I was sitting, so the distance coupled with the low light resulted in a bit of a blurry rhino.