Okavango lions ate my camera

Okavango star trails
Okavango star trails

The camera was set on blub mode and was meant to shoot the star trails for 20 minutes. After setting up the camera outside my tent, I opened the shutter and let it to start shooting.

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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