Yesterday we covered a huge area in the vehicle, driving to field cameras to remove the SD cards, replace batteries and reset the cameras. At 7.30am it was 23 degrees, and it just got hotter and hotter.

I was very relieved that it had not been that way on Wednesday when we did 3 bush walks to reach cameras that cannot be accessed by driving to them. I was also relieved that our scout in front of me with the gun came across the green mamba snake on the ground before I did.

Right next to the spot where the snake had been basking was a small buffalo thorn bush, and 5ft up it was an enormous seething mass of bees, tens of thousands of them. We moved on pretty sharpish and left them to it.

There was a breath stopping moment, when we were yards from a white rhino with all of us including the rhino in thick long grass - it's amazing, and scary how a huge animal like that can become so hard to see and hidden by a few tufts of long grass.

We also held our breath on the second walk when we had to pass by 7 white rhinos in a water hole, including a tiny baby rhino. All was well, and then we reached the point where they could start to smell us (not that we were whiffy, but their sense of smell is keen) - they stood up, and four of the largest rhino turned and lined up facing us - and they then all turned and fled up the hill with incredible speed. We reached the camera 5 minutes later and saw them in the distance, they had already travelled a huge way in that time, they can really run when they want to, but the trick is not to be in their path when they do so....

Back at the vehicle we heard the bees flying, a most incredible drone and quite a haunting sound as we looked to locate them.

Later, back at camp the SD card that we had retrieved from the camera revealed some spectacular shots of lions who had passed by the cameras (we knew they had been in the area we walked in as we had seen their tracks in several places) - the time of the pictures were around the time we had been at the cameras, but a day or two earlier....