Weekend at camp

I decided not to go out in town on Friday and stay over as I was up early with the elephant walks, but it meant that only a few of us were at the camp on Saturday which is so quiet as there is 'NO WAY OUT' without a guide or one of the sisters with the 'buggie' By the way I forgot to mention getting off the elephant - my legs had been so 'spread' they hurt. LOL
I sat by the 'fence' eating my breakfast and heard a noise directly the other side of the fence (crunching bones) I looked over to see Lola the fluffy white dog on the wild side of the fence! AAAAAAHHHHHH!! Decision - do I risk life and limb to go outside and rescue her or leave her to the lions. We compromised and and I lifted the safe bit of the fence to bring her back. And then Bushfield (the pitbull) decided to leap through the fence - there were chicken bones which were too big a temptation. I thought you're on your own mate - but he came back through too.
Later in the day I went to the hide with Mark - he was digging in the sand which we use for erosion work, but I sat in the hide and just listened to the noise of the bush. On the way back to camp we came by a giraffe right outside the gate and he let us come so close to him- they are such graceful creatures.
In the evening I was up in the look out tower when the monkeys started going beserk, Leon told us that meant there was big game in the area and on queue we heard the lions roar in nearby.
We had a BRAII for tea ( BBQ) and thoughout the night you could hear the lions in the bush.
Sunday was much more eventful as we had a lecture on gun handling and safefy and then we spent an hour shooting. I managed to achieve a few 'brain' shots but the it was interesting because in South Africa the law says that you cannot shoot an animal until is 20 metres from you. At that point (and depending on the animal) if you miss the animal will be on you, so Campfire safaris teach you respect for the animal and how to get away rather than kill it.

Last night we saw an elephant at the water hole and this morning when we walked in the bush we could hear an elephant walking and breaking trees but we couldn't find him. Lots of dung around though and we also came across lots of lion tracks near the house.
Glad to hear you're enjoying my blog. I know when I go to Sri Lanka - it will probably be more difficult to keep in touch.

That's all for now. It's Monday