Hello to all !! Today was a pretty normal day we went out on our 6am drive and within minutes saw 4 white rhinos grazing for food. This is pretty rare around these parts but not as rare as the black rhino which is highly endangered. The rhino we saw were quite surprised to see us come right up behind them so they ended up running away to avoid us since it happend to be a group of females who wanted to protect a young calf. Rhino running through the bush is pretty loud by the way, it sounds like loud crashing , branches breaking, floor rumbling, its pretty intimidating. After we had scared them off by stalking them, we decided to push on. We drove to the watering hole where we saw a mother and baby hippo out of the water which is a good thing to see since they spend most of their time in the water during the day. When we pulled up the sound of our brakes startled the hippos as well as a troop of baboons who had slept on the steep rocky cliff by the watering hole. The hippos slowly but surely went back into the water and we drove off. On our drive we closely approached a large male bull elephant who was eating from a tree. You would never believe how something so large can just show up out of nowhere!! we sat and watched him from a safe distance for about 20 minutes and then reversed back a couple hundred feet to have our tea and breakfast break. Like usual we had a hard boiled egg, green apple and a couple of sandwiches made with cold cheese and butter, but food is food and we were definitely all very hungry. After we ate we got back into our land rover and headed back to school. Sean found this to be a perfect time to try a new road that we had never used before made up of huge and I mean huge rocks, we got stuck a couple times but managed to get through with nothing 2 severe just severe bruises on my legs from hitting the seat and bar in front of me and whiplash in my neck. I got to take a video of it but it would probably make you sick if I showed it. As we were driving we saw a couple of trees filled with 3 different species of vulture which was highly unusual so we figured they were overlooking a kill, but it turns out they all came to this area to thermoregulate and gain heat from the sun. When we got back to school we sat around for a couple hours wondering why the other group hadnt returned? When they got back they told us they took so long because they spotted a big male lion sleeping under a bush!! Man was I upset , I have been here for a month now and have not seen any cats!! I was almost turned off looking at all the awesome pictures everyone got.
Next week I am backpacking the Kruger park for 7 days so hopefully I will see some then, I’m guessing iI will get an encounter I will never forget by the looks of it!
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