April 27th - final day

Left our lovely hotel early to make our way back to near Windhoek and the flight home. The lovely guide found me a secretary bird on the roadside, but no photo as it was camera shy. 

Our stop for the day was at Africat (https://africat.org/) an organisation about which I was highly sceptical, in spite of having read up about it beforehand.

The organisation is hosted on a private reserve, a long way up an unmade track:

Nyala bull - not native to Namibia

These three 'ambassadors' cannot be relocated into the wild - not entirely sure why - so are kept in a large enclosure. They cannot be fed live prey, but they are exercised on a cheetah run, about which I am, to put it mildly, ambiguous. They have been neutered, so can't breed and I am unambiguous in my approval of that.

As far as I can ascertain, Africat is a force for good working with a number of conservation organisations in order to monitor and protect endangered wildlife. 

For anyone who watches the Etosha waterhole cam, Africat works with the Namibian Desert Lion Conservation Trust, collaring the pride leaders so that the animals can be safely relocated if they stray outside protected areas.

Our hotel was a bit eccentric: 

But provided an splendid last dinner for us all: 

And then we were gone: