A bit too close for comfort

We had a very exciting afternoon in camp a couple of days ago. We have tea in camp at 4pm with cakes and yummy munchies and then afternoon games drives set off at 4.30. We just had one couple in camp that afternoon with more arriving later. They went off after filling their tummies with freshly baked banana bread with David one of our guides. They didn't get very far before they had already seen something that would take up the afternoons game drive.

Davids voice came on the radio "Theres a lion stalking a zebra next to room 5 and 6" "make sure no one comes over here"!!!

Kyle and I rushed down to back of house to tell the staff not to go across the river or they would interrupt it all. We grabed a car to check it out.

I was panicking about the two dogs getting involved or wanting to check out what we were all going to look at (we have kiko our little jack Russell and Pumba our bosses dog that we are looking after for a while) kyle being very cool and chilled said dont worry and they would be fine left down by the kitchen  right as we heard the shrills from the zebra as the lioness caught it we also heard kiko squeek!! Part excitement and park the noise of the zebra. I got chills down my back and ran down but saw she was fine. As soon as we found out we were coming to live in the mara with her we got a very heavy duty cage made. So we locked her up in it and went off to see what was happening. (pumba is very chilled and stays where she is told, which is exactly what a dog needs to do living out here).

We drove out and saw a zebra leg it out of the camp and drove to davids car. The lioness had left her kill so i didnt get any good pics, but you can see how close it was to the tents.

we went back to the office and our room to see if we could see it form there. Our room is about 100 feet away from the spot she killed it. we sat and watched as she came back slowly with her 5 cubs to eat the zebra. it went on all nights. getting to and from the tent was quite spooky. especially with the dogs on high alert from the smell of the lions so close.

We went our after dinner to check on what was going on. they had practically finished it and by morning all that was left was 4 feet and skull! Eaten entirely in one night.