One of life’s great unknowns …. When will the rains arrive in the Serengeti!!!! If you talk to the old time farmers, they will tell you that you could set your watch by the arrival of the rains, but now climate change or whatever it is now, is totally up in the air and almost impossible to predict. Well by us anyway!
Nature seems to have a way of knowing from the acacia trees that flower and have seeds ready to fall and germinate with the first rain to the flying ants and termites who rise like smoke from the ground with the rains – eager to mate and establish new colonies. These things are all starting to happen so we know the rains are close! But this year we have had a special treat …. Some early rain around our Serengeti camp and in the wilderness walking area ….. its green and lush and that’s all the invitation a hungry wildebeest needs! Over the past few weeks, the herds have been moving south from the dry season grazing areas in the north of the Serengeti up on the Mara River (repeatedly running the gauntlet of the monster crocs as they cross and recross the river in search of grazing) into the area around camp.
It’s an incredible feeling to see and hear tens of thousands of wildebeest swirling around camp as you sit sipping your morning tea or coffee. …. And of course, where there are wildebeest there are hungry lions! Being on safari during any change is fantastic ….. but this has to be one of our favourites!
