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Two wild bulls were drinking water at the stockade water troughs when the orphans were let out. Mapia settled for scratching while Esampu walked down to join two wild bulls that were taking water. Shortly later, she was joined by the other orphans. Mundusi had a game of playing with Mteto but was interrupted by Roi who came in and tried to push Mundusi. The bulls left after drinking enough water. Wanjala and Ndiwa tried to follow the wild bulls but the Keepers intervened by calling them to come back. Out in the browsing field, Sapalan briefly engaged Namalok in a pushing game while Enkikwe knelt down to feed on some grass he really liked. At mud bath time, the orphans were joined by Kilaguni and Chaimu. The two ex-orphans accompanied the orphans back to the browsing field and in the evening, they all passed by the mud bath for an evening cooling-off exercise. After the evening mud bath, the orphans did some soil dusting to dry off, before going back to the stockade for the night. 

Twenty-one wild elephants were drinking water at the stockade water troughs when the orphans were let out. As soon as the orphans settled for lucerne, three wild bulls joined them. Mapia walked down close to the water trough facing east and appeared as if he was welcoming whoever was coming for a drink. Mapia only left when a family herd that was so thirsty threatened to push him for looking at them in a suspicious way. Mapia retreated and went back to join his friends.

Mundusi later engaged Karisa in a pushing game while Sapalan settled to play with Pare. At mud bath time, the temperature was high, and the orphans participated fully in a wallowing exercise. They were then joined by Mutara’s group with Chaimu and Kilaguni. After having enough of wallowing, the orphans had a dust bath and thereafter headed back out to browse. In the evening, thirty-five wild elephants showed up for water at the stockade compound and left at their own pleasure when they had enough water. 

It was a beautiful sunny and busy morning at the stockades, as the orphans were visited by a big group of wild elephants and some of the ex-orphans. Amongst the ex-orphans was Orwa, Bomani, Kilaguni and Chaimu, who are all part of Mutara’s group. Orwa came over to scratch his back along the wall, whilst Jotto was busy scratching his face on a large rock. The orphans finished their morning Lucerne pellets and then made their way out into the field, leaving the wild bulls and ex-orphans at the stockade water trough. 

Out in the bush, it is still very dry and all the orphans were busy browsing. Mundusi was scratching his back leg on a tree stump and the rest started walking to the mud bath.

At the mud bath there was a slight wind and therefore the orphans didn’t feel like swimming, but they had their bottles of milk and walked back to the bush to browse .They had a good evening browse and later walked back home for their evening bottles. We had also few wild bulls in the stockade this evening who came to drink water.

It was a busy morning with several wild elephants reporting for water. The orphans, as usual, settled for Lucerne and waited for the bulls to leave to go and have water. After the wild elephants had enough water and left, the orphans walked down and occupied the water troughs to have a good long drink of water. Later, the orphans settled to browse south of the stockade. On the way to the mud bath, the orphans were joined by Kilaguni. The mud bath was short as the orphans had their milk, a short mud bath, dust bath and then returned back to browsing. Olsekki, who was the last one at the water trough, was joined by four wild bulls. The brave Olsekki took his time in drinking water then scratched against the acacia tree in front of the wild bulls before walking to join his friends who had already left. It was quite hot in the afternoon and the orphans decided to take a break from feeding to relax under a tree and later resumed browsing.