The Boma chit- chat forum Friday 14 August 2009

A  Good Africam morning all at the BOMA.

Happy camming all , will go now  and  be back  in the morning.

Hi Hanneke and thanks for starting the new day threads.  I hope the new day brings us lots of great sights and sounds at the waterholes.  Have a good night Hanneke and good camming all.

Thanks for the New Day Hanneke. Hi Tman! So glad you are back with us. Hope you are feeling well and don't over do it. Missed the ellies but loving the peace at the pans.

Thanks Hanneke. Rest well!! Hello all.

Hi Morris. The spot the ellies left at NK looks like a critter . Looks like a dog or a fat cat.

Hi Donna, Morris and anyone else about lurking.  Amazing difference in looking through a new lens in the eye from an old one with a cataract.  Very simple procedure overall too.  Although I can supposedly do most anything I am still taking it easy on the eye.  Besides my norm is taking it easy lol.  I did miss seeing the cams and following the forum for that time period though.

Hi everyone - T-man, Howwa, Donna, Morris . . .

I have about an hour before the New England Patriots play their first pre-season game - woo, hoo!!

Today must be Ellie Day - the only Twitter posts for the past six hours were elephants!

Hi Sue... go Patriots :)  we get Pitt vs Ariz here tonight. I would much rather watch that game.. I like both of those teams.  I need to get some things done but plan to be back for the morning parade.  Good camming all.

Hi Sue! You come in and I get hungry. Wonder what that's about.

I dunno, don't blame me!

My girlfriend moved from Mass. to Hawaii about 20 years ago. She and her dh (a native) came home to visit this week. They brought us some chocolate-covered Macadamia nuts, honey roasted Mac. nuts, and some Hawaiian sugar! Yum!

Yum! DD and a friend moved there right after college. Stayed a month, lol! If you aren't BOI or military, it's tough. I love the place. Kona coffee...mmm. I'm going for dinner. BBL.

Game time! Hold the fort, Morris!

Hi...here for a little while...hoping to see some critters

Almost missed that...looked like a cat came to drink at the finger and left again

Cat was drinking at the NK finger and the forum is so slow I couldn't get it posted. Tweeter didn't come up either

Amazing - it just crept out of the light, and appeared as if by magic!  Was it a small cat or a jackal?  Seemed to have a good tail on it.

I guess a cat, then - unfortunately all I could see was something white with four legs and a tail!

Hi Jon...I thought cat..it seemed to stop and look up and around like a cat does..and seemed to lie down to drink..like a cat....had to be a cat...lol

Thanks Janice! Glad someone else saw it. I'm going to clean my cache. BB

something again

Hi, Poppet - yes, reckon you are right.  I like the leisurely way it strolled!  Now I'm happy to go off to bed (2.20 a.m. UK time, snorrrrre....) having seen somebody at NP.  Eagerly waiting to see EP fill up and see who's attracted to the new, improved paddling facilities!  All the best, see you again soon.

Goodnight Jon..yes, will be good to see EP full again

As you can see, I am a long time member but have not posted here for ages.  What ever this critter is, it does not look cat-like to me.  A mystery!

Hi Kay...no don't think that was a cat...but the one that drank just before certainly crouched to drink and behaved like a cat

Hi Kay! the last one was a bokkie, but the first one was very cat like. Walked straight to the waterhole, looked like it laid flat to drink and walked off like a cat. Too weird that a cat and bokkie would be so close, but not impossible, lol.

Donna, that's what I was thinking too..strange for a bokkie to be wandering around like that with a cat so recent

Hello, Janice,

I have been so out of touch here.  What happened to the EP waterhole?  I will be there on 27 Aug!

Oh, lucky you Kay ...they let EP dry out and have been taking all the mud and slush out of the bottom..hoping they will start filling it again very soon

We have had a Common Duiker the last few nights. They are skittish and always looking around.