'Ky dya hiku engeta', Shangaan for 'once you have tasted, you will want to return'
Return we did, we are back in Louis Trichardt with a African Finfoot on the Big Year list. Another 4.30am start before meeting up with Samson. We had a fly-over of a group of noisy Grey-headed Parrots before going to a private dam for the Finfoot.
The dam is quite beautiful, restful, quiet and we waited quietly too for well over an hour before Samson noticed a female out in the dam feeding. Incredible to be seeing this bird at last and we were treated to special views. At one point the bird left the water and climbed onto the dam wall with a fish in its mouth. Yet another quite extraordinary moment in a year of many such moments.
We have just put in petrol and are headed for Botswana and will stop over in Francistown before going up to Shakwe....
