Wildebeest Crossing Mara River
A wildebeest crossing doesn’t ‘just’ happen. It takes hours to build up. Witnesses of this event need patience- lots of it. It rarely happens that one arrives at the scene of a crossing as it is about to happen. And so too with this crossing. We watched for hours at the Mara River as the herds built up on the Maasai Mara side of the Mara River to cross into the greener pastures of the Serengeti. They packed the river banks, then “decided” not to cross. Then they walked downstream and returned. Then upstream. And returned. And so the indecision continued. They felt compelled to cross- but it’s as if they knew that danger in the form of huge crocs lurked in the...