Elephants Footprint Lodge

November 3, 2025

We arrived in the dark last night so after a good sleep we wandered around a little to get a bit of exercise and start adjusting to the heat. Our accommodation is quite unique as you will see in the photos. In the afternoon we took a boat ride on the Sunday River to see some of the local bird life. It was a great boat ride and again the photos will do the talking when I can load them. The remainder of our group arrived today and they are Germans or Swiss who speak German, this is what I expected.

Some of the bird photos I took some are liberated from the internet. I saw the birds but my photos weren’t very good.

Robert’s cheese cake dessert last night.

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The male builds as many as 25 nests in one tree and mates with multiple females.

Sand dunes on one side and rocky with vegetation on the other. The waves crashing in the distance is the mouth of the river where it meets the Indian Ocean.

I stayed on board while others climbed the sand dunes.

The gang climbing the dunes that run 140km along the coast.

At the wind swept top of a dune that was 15 storeys high.

My red bishop. They only turn red in the spring mating season and each bird is different.

They nest in the reeds at various levels each year which indicates how much rain is coming because if too low they will flood out when the river rises.

A snake head cormorant, it is called this because when in the water the body is submerged and the head an neck look like a snake slithering through the water.

My blue heron on the mud and a white heron in flight. The white heron has black legs but yellow feet.

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