Wednesday 17th. Post Zulu dancing and Game Reserve. The fun bits....

Before going to the game reserve the family went to the traditional Zulu dancing thing. The dancers decided to take A and A into the troop... As you can see by the smiles, there were not too many protests!



















Then on to the game reserve in Marks very nice Landrover. Fitted 7 with no problems. I found the game viewing amazingly interesting, could have been that I had a decent camera. The animals I liked best (except for a majestic giraffe) were the babies.. See below...



I though a baby cow might have got mixed up with the wildebeests.











This is the white Rhino (straight bottom lip and grazes grass)...











Ash has the steady hand for these long distance moving shots. Talk about "hanging on"!













These guys were very shy...











My personal favorite














Just butt ugly!

























Nick liked the war paint on the Nyala

















He was just superb!













The morning walks.
Every morning Elliot and NuNu would collect the willing ones at 5:15am and we would walk for a couple of hours through the bush. The numbers dwindled rapidly from 9 on the first morning to 3 on the last.


This is a Rhino "place for shitting". The round ball, at the bottom of the picture, is being pushed by 2 very small (relatively) dung beatles. I believe they might have bitten off a bit more than they can chew - literally.





















The son and hair even made it for the first walk, which trust me, was a mammoth effort.













Drinks on the porch of Gqoyeni before dinner (alas still no waist reduction happening). The cook was Alphius (sp) and he made a fine breakfast, lumpy Multebela porridge, which all 5 of our kids devoured, followed by eggs, bacon, mushrooms, toast etc etc







The next post deals with a few of the more interesting things that happened during the three days.