26/10/2017
Sometimes during an ongoing safari with friends or guests, we tend to take certain things for granted. Things like an insect buzzing around you, a bird searching for some water to drink and many others. Like here, we were having a lunch break in the Serengeti, and my friend Tony had been worried since morning if our guests would get a hot shower this coming night.(They got a numbing cold one the previous night). He wasn't very happy this afternoon because of this and he really wanted that hot shower sorted. Anyway, as I munched on my quick lunch bits, which I remember was a sandwich or something like that, I followed, on foot, around this open lunch area, two birds and a mongoose that were timid but not shy enough to resist coming near the water tank place to have some water to drink. They had some ingenious ways though that got my attention. Good enough, the staff here make it easier for the animals that come around. They put plastic containers on the ground or in any place where the water drips (or might drip) to be able to collect all those drops, because every drop counts. I lazily recorded them as I summarised my quick lunch in the other hand. It's that kind reminder to us all: Conserve Water, Every Drop counts! (The guests and us got a hot shower though on this night).
