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Three wild bulls were at the stockade water trough drinking water when the orphans were let out. The orphans settled for lucerne and were joined by one wild elephant, Kithaka, Lemoyian, Orwa and Kilaguni. As soon as they had enough, Larro led the way out for the day. Larro settled to browse with Lemoyian as Mteto teamed up with Pare to browse. Jotto found a suitable tree that he used to scratch his back and hind before resuming browsing. It was a quiet morning without many activities. 

Shortly before mud bath time, the rebels left to an undisclosed location again. The rest of the orphans had their midday milk bottles before walking off to cool off in the smaller roadside mud bath. Only Kilaguni decided to wallow in the main mud bath. Shortly after the orphans left to continue browsing, more than forty wild bulls showed up at the mud bath and had fun in the water there for several hours. 

Kamok took Ambo decided to spend some of their afternoon in a soil dusting exercise. Later, the orphans returned safely to the stockade compound for the night. 

Under the cover of darkness, Mutara showed up at the stockades with her first baby, a baby boy! Mutara was in the company of her group consisting of Suguta, Sities, Turkwel and Kainuk. Kalama, who doesn't have a permanent group, was also present to celebrate the arrival of the new baby. We were so excited to share this joyful news with our Mutara.

The wild bull known as Dad with several of his wild friends arrived at the stockade compound early before dawn. At that time, there was no water in the water troughs as it had been finished during the night. At dawn, the water bowser arrived with more water and the troughs were replenished. Dad and his friends enjoyed quenching their thirst and left shortly afterwards at their own pleasure. Two wild herds joined the dependent orphans to feed on lucerne soon after they were let out of their night stockades. Mutara, Mambo, Turkwel, Sities, Suguta, Kainuk, Chaimu, Kalama, Kilaguni, Bomani, Kithaka, Garzi, Lemoyian and Orwa were also present. Naboishu threatened one of the wild youngsters with consequences if she dared touch his lucerne. The wild girl didn’t heed Naboiushu’s warning and approached closer, so Naboishu made his threats real and pushed her away. The young girl walked away and rejoined her mother. The groups dispersed as soon as the lucerne was depleted. Naboishu lagged behind with Turkwel and Suguta, enjoying the attention from the two older females. The two girls escorted Naboishu to join his friends then returned to resume their role as Mambo's nannies. 

Later in the morning, Pare decided to engage Sapalan in a pushing game that lasted for quite sometime. Kamok intervened and brought their game to an end by separating the two boys. The rest of the herd concentrated on browsing until mud bath time when Ambo led the first group down for the midday bottle feeds. Ex-orphans Wendi, Wema, Lenana, Lapa, Nasalot, Noah, Nusu, Yatta, Yoyo, Yetu, baby Yogi, Ithumbah, Sunyei, Siku and Saba showed up at the mud bath in the company of some wild bulls. The orphans decided to have their milk and leave immediately as they felt there were too many older elephants at the main mud bath, and they headed for the roadside mud bath instead. 

In the afternoon the orphans settled to browse west of the Ithumba Hill. Given that it was so hot, the orphans took a break from feeding to relax under some trees with nice shade, resuming to browse later when the temperature dropped to a more favourable level.