As I wrote here, I recently, finally, made it to Humani, where I had been hoping to go since the beginning of Covid border closures. One of my reasons for wanting to travel there, besides seeing Anne and Roger again, was to meet Rocky, a rescued baby rhino. Not only did I get so see him, as he came to the back garden gate every night for his goodnight scratches, but I also saw a black rhino on the riverbank - this was my first good sighting, not counting tracking and spotting a rhino over Christmas of 2019 (that one was quite hidden in the bushes and not easy to see.)
As promised in my last post, here are photos documenting the beauty of this part of Zimbabwe, so well looked after by my cousins and those who work with them.
Rocky weighs about 700 kg, or 1,500 pounds, but loves resting his huge head on people’s chests.
Here he is with Anne.
Often in the mornings Rocky had left his mark by knocking down all the lawn chairs…
This is the wild rhino we saw across the river.
As we watched, he lay down for a little nap.
Most evenings, we drove to places over looking the Save River.
Here are some waterbuck drinking in the dusk light.
Anne birdwatching.
Having a sundowner with Roger and Mark.
A pied kingfisher
Parked overlooking the river.
Anne with Boss, the black lab, her silver goblet, and the trusty blue cooler box.
Sundowners with silver goblets, as we couldn’t find the plastic picnic cups.
Ducks in the river.
We went to go visit Karen Paollilo, who runs the Turgwe Hippo Trust. Her home is also home to tons of baboons and vervet monkeys, and their proximity meant I could get some amazing photos.
