Our first game drive at Kirkman's Camp started about 3:30 in the afternoon. Joel id our ranger / driver and Jerry is our tracker who sits on a seat on the hood of the Land Rover. We are taking the game drives together with Nick and Rita from Vancouver and Inaki (not sure this is the correct spelling) from Japan who did his MBA at McGill.

There are many antelope here. Above is a heard of Nyala. There are actually four of these antelopes that graze on the lawn outside of our room. 

The highlight of the drive was encountering a lion pride resting on the bank of the Sand River. There are no lion cubs in this pride but Joel took us the next morning to a lioness' den where she is hiding two cubs. We didn't get to see them that day but Joel said we would return. 

Also we saw a hippo in the distance, only a black blob and two rhinos in the dark after the sun went down. We hope to see these on a future drive.