Swimming 33:00 [2] 0.9 km (36:40 / km)
Training was very much an incidental activity today, sandwiched in between doing an early-morning wildlife tour (one day to be grateful for never having got my body clock properly sorted out: it started at 5am) and venturing out on my own for much of the rest of the day. As often in small pools with no markings on the bottom, navigation and working out where the ends were was sometimes a challenge.
Certainly came up trumps in the wildlife department, though. Going on the tour gave me a bit of an idea of what to look for; I was a bit concerned that not having passengers to scan for sightings was going to be a disadvantage, but in practice, most of the time, the existence of something interesting was indicated by someone already stopped to look at it. (On two separate occasions when I stopped to take landscape photos, other people stopped behind me, assuming I'd seen something). It's a very big park - 400x60km - and I only really scratched the surface.
Wildlife scorecard for the day: elephant, hyena, giraffe, rhino, warthog, impala, baboon, monkey, zebra, buffalo, hippo, lion (the last right at the end of the day). Just about the only things I was hoping to see and didn't were leopards and cheetahs.
After looking like it was about to do it all day, a big thunderstorm broke about 3pm (whereupon the animals all sensibly went to ground). It was worse further west, though, with significant flash flooding in Johannesburg - mostly in Soweto. (I suspect this is a fairly regular occurrence; I'm guessing the only government regulation which was enforced with respect to Soweto at the time of its building was the one which said blacks had to live there, and that consequently a lot of buildings have been built in floodways). Also big dumps of snow in Lesotho.