2 Days in Kruger

On Tuesday we did our usual bush walk but I forgot to mention that we did the Campfire Safari competition of who can spit the Impala dung the furthest!!. I can hear my mam saying ‘What are you doing putting animal pooh in your mouth??’ It’s apparently very safe as they only eat grass – so I’m told.

Wednesday we were digging sand at the dam and looked up to find the 2 house dogs – Lola and Bushveld just wandering across the bush without a care in the world. AT least it was a good excuse to pack up and take them home.
We went into Hoedspruit in the afternoon I lost my hat that I’d bought at the elephant ride which really annoyed me. On the way home we were commenting on what a quiet day it had been and how the bush seemed pretty quiet too. As we turned into the road that leads to camp there were 5 lionesses just strolling across the road in the sunset. They were huge beasts and we tried tracking them in the buckie but they wandered too far into the denser growth. Always a surprise in the bush!

I’ve just spent the last 2 days in Kruger and following the panoramic route home. We saw complete herds of elephants with their babies crossing the road in front of us. There were groups of giraffes and their babies too which couldn’t have been more than a few weeks old. At one of the watering holes were a family of baboons and day old babies and then an elephant arrived to drink and have a bath. There were Water buck, kudu, mongeese, njala and hippos. We even went to hug a tree which was over 1000 years old. It was certainly a memorable day – we would be just driving and suddenly Adele or Bee would say ‘LOOK!’ and there would be another amazing sight. We lunched at a nice lodge where the birds just came and sat on the tables waiting for you to finish. We stayed at another lodge overnight where we were greeted by the geese in the evening and woken by them in the morning. We had a BRAII (BBQ) and drank lots of wine.

On Friday we took the Panoramic route home through the Draagensberg mountains. They apparently stretch from Cape Town to Turkey!!. We stopped at several places where the views were stunning. There was a waterfall, then potholes, we stopped at the ‘BIG SWING’ where if we really felt mad enough we could have taken a 75 metre drop swing into a massive gorge or done it in tandem of done a zip slide. I was tempted but thought better of it. We climbed to God’s window and looked at the rainforest and then finally we drove up to overlook the 3 rondavels – I have never seen such spectacular landscape. I’ve taken photos but I know they won’t do justice.

Back at camp now and Saturday is always quiet unless we go into town on the Friday and stay over. Last night there was just me Tracy and Tanya left at camp and we were scaring ourselves with the noises we could hear in the bush and if you shone the torch out into the bush you could see eyes!!.. I laughed as none of us were brave enough to really find out what was out there. Good fun.

That’s all for now.

Glad to hear you’ve been out and about on your own mam!!. Just make sure you don’t overdo it – the dancing can wait a little longer. Love you!! Take care

Sue.xxx