Lions, rhinos and elephants

I was staying two more nights just outside the Etosha park, at Omguma Bush Camp, which is also surrounded by a big game park. I decided to take it a bit easy and go on some guided drives instead of driving through the park again on my own (I had already done almost 500 km in the park looking for animals). It started of with a night drive in the Omguma reserve, looking what is happening after dark. It was freezing cold in the open landrover, so I was very glad about the blanket and hot water bottle provided). As it was that cold, we mainly saw the antelopes and jackals trying to find some shelter. Also interesting that with each herd of springboks, there was one gnu for protection. We weren't very lucky with all the nocturnal animals, the only ones we saw was the spotted genet hiding up on a tree, and a rabbit. I guess most animal were trying to hide from the cold and wind. But at the end we even saw a small chameleon sleeping on a tree. Next morning I had to get up early again, as we went on a tour through Etosha from sunrise to lunch. It still seems to be quite quiet with tourists at the moment, so I was the only guest on the tour (and two guides from the lodge). I was told that all the guides are connected with radio, so if one finds something interesting, the others would know as well. However, our car wasn't yet equipped with the radio. So he would use his mobile phone from time to time. We saw a few giraffes close to the first waterhole (with a baby of about 2 weeks), some springbok and gnu, then again nothing. Eric, the guide, called up the others, also No interesting finds yet. We go to the next waterhole, and we see a whole lion family drinking water. Nine lions, one big male, two older female, one young male, and several cubs. They were drinking, playing, streching, really cool. (Of course then we told some others to come to this waterhole as well). It lasted for about 15 minutes, then they all had enough and went back into the bushes to find a nice resting place for the day. As they were gone, we also left the waterhole, looking for other animals. After a while Eric spotted a rhino quite far away. We watched it for a bit, and saw that it actually was coming towards us. This was a white rhino (before I had only seen the black ones), which us supposed to be the peaceful one, not the agressive one. We just stood there with the car, and the rhino came closer and closer. And it didn't look too happy about us being there. So we backed away a little (even though it's the peaceful one, we don't have to start a fight), but the rhino came after us again. Just after we backed away even further, it slowly moved on, still not completely convinced that we are harmless. A bit further then we also saw a black rhino, but this one didn't really care about us. The next waterhole then was empty (except some birds), but the one after this we got a quite amazing view again. A big family of elephants was drinking (at least 15-20), with big ones,  little ones, teenager,... Next to them was a giraffe drinking, which looks quite interesting since either their legs are too long, or their neck too short. Anyway, they have quite some trouble reaching the water. After this exciting morning we went back to the camp, where I enjoyed the sun for a while. In the afternoon I went for another drive, a sundowner drive (very typical here) in the Omguma reserve. For q sundowner you drive around for 1-2 hours, pretending to look for animals (sometimes you even see some, for example this time I learn all about the mating season of the impalas), and then when the sun sets you stop at a nice place to watch with a glass of wine or beer). And then you get back to the camp just in time for dinner.