April 2, Day 4 of our Safari          

We had a 5:00am wake up call again.  Since this is our last drive I jumped up.  I can’t believe how much I am enjoying this.  And except for the adult male leopard walking past me and opening his mouth to yawn I have been pretty good as far as not being petrified!  We are almost all packed.  We will go out on our drive today we are going at 6:00am instead of 6:30 and we will return around 9am.  We will then have breakfast and freshen up and we leave for the airport at 10:45.  It is the prettiest little airport  one gate for arrivals and one for departures.  They do have a really nice gift shop.

We are all anxious to see our last animals in the wild.  We are driving around for quite awhile and not seeing anything.  Enoch is still trying to find the lions without much luck.  I am sitting here thinking this isn’t good I want to see something.  I would love to see more elephants since they are my absolute favorite.  Not long after thinking this we see an elephant ahead.  As we get closer we realize it is a whole herd and there are two babies. The older elephants got all around the babies to protect them from running out into the road in front of us.  Enoch said one of the babies was only a month old.  As with all kids.  One of the larger babies starts pushing the little one and the little one starts pushing the big one until Mama elephant comes over and with her trunk she just smacks both of them.  We are now all hysterial cause it just proves it doesn’t matter if you are human or animal when the kids act up mama is gonna smack you!  We are now stopped and surrounded by animals front, back and sides.  I am enjoying watching these little ones they are adorable.  The bigger of the two is having trouble getting over a tree that is lying on the ground and it was so cute watching it trying and trying to get up and over and finally he did it.  We all wanted to clap for it.  We sat here for a really long time and then we started to drive the elephants were all around us but got off the road so that we could pass.  Enoch said they will not bother you if you are sitting the jeep but if you get out they will attack.  Thank you very much I do not need to get out.

We head back to the Lodge.  We did see more Antelope, Kudo’s, and birds.  I can’t believe that it is over and that we are heading home to the ship.  We will arrive in Cape Town at 2 the ship was not suppose to arrive in Cape Town till 6 so we have a 3 hour tour scheduled.  The ship will be in town earlier as there was a bad storm and they tried to get into Port Elizabeth and were not able to!  Tomorrow on our full day tour our friend Gaye and her husband Graham will pick us up and take us around!  So looking forward to it.  It makes it easier to leave here!

I can’t even begin to put in words what these last 4 days have been like.  I keep pinching myself and asking if it is real!!!!  We are so blessed!

More of this once in a lifetime adventure still to come.

These two little ones were horsing around they were so cute!

I want to bring one home until I was told they eat 500 lbs of food a day and poop just as much!!!!!!

Cape Buffalo about 6 months old.  All that was left after the Lions got a hold of it