Joe, our maintenance manager likes his sleep! He is renowned for sleeping through the loudest lion roar, the most deafening hippo guffaw and the ear piercing shrill of a baboon alarm call. However, earlier this month, the animals decided to rebel and if they were awake in the deepest darkest hours, then so should Joe!!
At about 0400 in the morning the lodge had some visitors; a pride of six lions and a lonely male hippo. Although common visitors to the lodge, it has to be said they don’t often visit at the same time. Needless to say the two night time guests met, right outside Joe’s window! Both the lion and the hippo were shocked and a moment of aggression past between them accompanied by roars, bellows and a few angry blows. However, no one was as shocked as poor old Joe. He was rudely awakened by the raucous and had no clue what was going on! There was even a moment where he thought, as the noise was so loud, they must be inside his room! Needless to say, Joe struggled to sleep for the rest of the night and was disturbed by dreams containing hippo and lion encounters of the deafening kind!
Since then, our night watchmen have not seen the same lion or the same hippo in camp!
