Okavango lions ate my camera
Friday, August 18, 2017
Okavango star trails
About 10 minutes later I got into the tent to paint it with light so that it could be visibly lit in the picture. After few minutes I heard the camera fall down, initially I thought it was the wind, so I got off and checked. And that’s when I saw them, three lions munching on my camera.
I slowly went back inside the tent. And hearing the crunching of the lions on my camera broke my heart. It was like hearing beasts killing your child. So I did what every parent would do, I tried to scare the lions away. Scaring the lions away sounds like a silly idea now but I did what I had to do.
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