There is no data or phone signal at Pafuri Border Camp where we are staying. The houses are perched on a hill overlooking the Pafuri Border Post with Mozambique. The border is closed. The sun rises over Moz and sets over SA with Zimbabwe to the North.
Our bird list is now at 247. We spotted the cute Black Wattle Eye in the Pafuri picnic site. The drive along the Luvuhu River is beautiful and the bush is pristine; like an illustration for a children's book about Africa.
There are so many nyala in the area as well as lots of baboon, zebra, giraffe, kudu, impala, buffalo and elephant. The river is crocodile infested. We didn't see any predators though. Yesterday we came across a half eaten zebra carcass with only three legs left next to the road and no sign of lions or hyenas anywhere. The forty or fifty vultures on the ground and in the trees were not eating at the carcass either. Why?
Today we went back to the spot and the whole carcass had gone. Even the vultures were gone. Not even a bone. Something must have dragged it away? Where? Another mystery of the bush.
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