Last year, when on my Kenya Safari I spent a wonderful hour or so beside a small water hole watching a group of hippos bathing, lazing and generally just playing about.
It was an exciting and unique experience and I felt really priviledged being there watching them.
There was a brief moment when they looked up and saw us and began swimming over to us when I really began to worry about how fast I could run if called to!! But they seemed to find us pretty uninteresting and carried on with what they were doing.
Here’s a great bit of footage from the BBC’s “Big Cat Diary” featuring these wonderful creatures:-
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