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The jeep slows. We all look around.



"There! John points."



See that small dark cluster in the center of the above photo? Below the giraffes? It's hard to tell, but that's the lions! John and the others have the benefit of binoculars. I only have my camera. I zoom in the telephoto.



The giraffes do not take their eyes off the lions. Lions are able to take down giraffes, our guide tells us. The giraffes close ranks.





I zoom in on two of the lions:



Here is the entire scene, as we saw it from our jeep. There are three lions, two together and one a little to the left and closer to us. By this time, the giraffes had crossed behind the lions and are off to the left, outside of the range of the photo.



There is still another lion off to the left:



I panned to the left to check what the giraffes were doing:





The lion over on the left got up:



Now there are three lions together, with one looking left towards the giraffes and the other two looking to the right.



The lion to the left is on the move:



The giraffes are watchful:



Now three of the lions settle in together.







We have to leave. The sun is setting and we will have to race to get out of the park in time. We hunker down and cling to the seat-rail for the bouncy drive to the lodge. We don't talk much on the trip back, we huddle in our jackets and let our minds re-play and absorb the scene we had been lucky enough to watch: a wild African lion pride hanging out on the savannah.





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