At the tail end of our week away we went to Queen Elizabeth National Park. I finally got to opportunity to camp at Campsite 2 which is within the national park. As the sun went down I could hear the animals beginning to move around, Hyenas yipping, hippos snorting, lions roaring, ... No fear though, the sounds were pretty far. Considering all the stories I have heard from other Campsite 2 experiences I think we had a pretty tame night. A fire was kept going all night to scare any animals away and it never sounded like anything got extremely close to our site. I think the noises I heard the most were from those in their tents tossing and turning and those getting up and down tending to the fire. We get up extremely early to go on a game drive since the animals move around at that time to catch their breakfast. As we were driving it was still a bit dark, but the Myhre children were up on the roof rack with a spotlight, shining it back and forth on each side of the road. About 1 mile or less from our campsite one of the kids notice some glowing eyes and shined the spotlight. It was a beautiful leopard, the one animal that I had yet to see at Queen Elizabeth. As you can imagine the leopard didn’t really like having the light shined down on it, so after a minute or two it got up and walked away. After that glorious moment we joked about going back to the campsite for breakfast because we knew that nothing else on our game drive would probably top the leopard sighting.
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