Elephant on the drive in to Erindi

We stayed at the Old Traders Lodge, perfectly located by a river (albeit dried up during our stay due to drought leaving just a lake at the far side) on one side and a couple of waterholes on the other. Wildlife would come and go throughout the day to both sides and I managed to get some decent ground level images of Elephants and Giraffe before finding my room. Combine that with the restaurant overlooking the river (dried) and lake inhabited by Nile Crocodiles and hippos, and visited by elephants, Wild Dogs and baboons by day and White Rhino by night, and you hardly felt you need to venture further. However, we were obviously keen to explore the reserve and see what we could find, so arranged morning and afternoon game drives for the duration of our three-night stay, starting with the first afternoon drive on the day we arrived.