2 25 THE REST OF THE STUFF

This is the vehicles we traveled around the reserve in.  It holds 10 passengers and the driver.  The driver has to yell to be heard in the back.  He did a pretty good job of it.  He also kept in touch with other drivers.  They shared animal locations.  We were lucky to find most of the good ones first.  The other vehicles arrived as we were leaving.

Each outing had some sort of snack stop.  This one included wine and mixed drinks.  Not bad for roughing it.

A wildebeest.

The one tortoise we saw.

 

Don’t they have beautiful tails?  Just like horses.  But they are black wildebeests. No, they are not really black.  Why?  I do not know why since they are brown.

Not the only vervet monkey we saw, but the only one we got any reasonable pictures of.  They move really fast and are not comfortable with us, like the larger animals are.  This one was the guard monkey.  He sat in the tree looking for trouble.

 

This is a blesbok. You can tell by the blaze on his face;) 

Above are more black wildebeests.

We saw many many impalas.  They are lovely to see.  It is sad to know the reason we saw lots of them, is they are there to feed the lions.  The rangers do not feed the lions.  The lions have to catch the impalas, or whatever else they eat.

      The different types of boks where often seen together.  In this herd, zebras grazed along with the others.

 

Africa gave us a fond farewell with a beautiful sunset and the next day, a rainbow.

 

The weather we had on the safari trip was wonderful for the locals.  We had some rain everyday.  We were told that the area has had a severe draught until a couple of days prior to our arrival.  So we were not upset about the little rain we encountered.  Actually, until the last afternoon, the rain was mild and cooling.  The second afternoon, though, it rained hard enough for us to have to wear ponchos and we had to cut the last trip short.

All in all, it was great.