It must have been a year or more ago when I first discovered Africam. I would sometimes sit up late at night watching one or another of the cameras, or clicking between different ones, hoping to catch a glimpse of an animal. It became something of an obsession, but animal sightings were few and far between, and I eventually lost interest.

Something made me remember it again last week, though, and when I visited I saw that they've changed the site quite a bit, both in design and in the number and quality of the cameras. And, apparently, the placement, because now you can hardly view one of the cameras without seeing a whole herd of animals.

Of course, maybe it's the time of year, or the weather--maybe it's drier than it was last summer, and more animals are visiting the watering holes. Whatever the reason, there seems to be a plethora of gorgeous animals viewable through the cameras, and it's threatening to become an obsession again, although I suppose it's lucky that Africa is on the other side of the world from me and most of their daylight hours are during the time I'm sleeping.

They also have "Drive Cams," which appear to be (I haven't spent all that much time looking around the site lately, or reading the information, just looking at the beautiful animals) cameras mounted on trucks or jeeps that are either driving around doing what they normally do or driving around looking for animals. I'm not clear on that.

But they do get some lovely close-up shots of the animals.

I even got a shot of a baby elephant, although I apparently missed the one of the elephants mating, which was the shot of the day one day last week. I don't think I really mind.