Well, I’m pleased to report that yesterday ended very well. As we were pulling back into the campus from our shopping trip into a town called Hoedspruit, for more junk food to fill my study table, we realized that we could head into Kruger for a couple hours before the gate closed. We threw our groceries into our rooms and hurried to the gate.We didn’t expect to see much because there wasn’t much action at this time of the year towards the Orpen gate of Kruger, so it was more of a pleasure drive. As we were 5 minutes into the gate we noticed a build up of cars blocking the road. For all who don’t know a build up of more than 4 cars in the Kruger Park means there is something good to see. So as we pulled up we asked one of the tourists what they were looking at and to our surprise they said cheetah!!
#1) A cheetah is very hard and rare to spot on a drive
2) We never expected a cheetah of all mammals to be so close to the gate so it was quite a surprise.
We quickly tried to push our way through to get some good pictures since the cheetah was walking very slow and stalking a group of impala grazing not too far ahead unaware that there was a cheetah on the way! Since we knew her thoughts we drove up ahead near the impala for a good seat. figured she was going to go in for the kill and we wanted to have the best seat in the house, it didn’t take long until everyone else followed us and the noise of all the cars scared the cheetah off into the bush 
Today was pretty interesting in that I felt like a man when we studied rifles/weapon handling ( not gun) Next we had to change a very heavy flat tire on the Land Rover with a jack that was about my height . This maneuver consisted of loosening the quarter size bolts, making sure the tires were secure with bricks, ushering our guest to safety, taking off the tire, putting it back onto the car which was near impossible , tightening the bolts back up and slowly letting the jack back down! Man I have to say after today I am pretty tired and am ready to go to bed so goodnight to all!!
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