time to catch up

Wow wow wow

What an amazing trip
Well i will start were my Ipad crashed
The trip to Blyde Canyon went well with a few laughs one i have to share, just after lunch we head to wards Orchastad  and there are some man made statues of animals and the whole bus fell for it, stop stop the driver and I were wetting our selves and when they all realised they weren't real they started booing and said i wasn't funny, but all enjoyed the joke,
Kruger park was a great success one of the 4 jeeps got to see wild dog, while the other three saw 2 spotted Hyena,we saw loads of all the animals, but cats were shy.
After lunch we found a lioness with three cubs just a little far, the jeep i was on decided to venture a little further than the other and it was a great idea , the driver kept saying we must turn around I said just to lower Sabie its not far away, and bingo i saw the tip of the tail just sliding in to the bush ,Leopard, we got it.
on the trip back for lunch we came across another lioness lying on the side of the road.
The next morning most went on the jeeps again, only a few on the bus and i decided to go South and the jeep went back to the area of the Leopard and they found it, us well we had some awesome sightings as well, we had two Hippos playing Tag chasing each other across the road almost colliding with a vehicle it was really funny.
The next Morning we made our way towards Swaziland,
We stopped at Malalane Shopping centre and i found some L&D (learnig And Discovery) there which was a great find
a young woman with a baby on her back and she gave a small demonstration how she does it .
then we stopped along side the road with a woman carrying timber on her head.
the following day was the Market visit and school. Wow we got loads of food and 7 chickens.
and we had another L&D for those who where interested, slaughtered and plucked the chickens and prepared food for the kids.
All had fun interacting and helping the kids.

Zululand was also a great experiance.
Sadly we had a bit of rain catch up with us from Swaziland to Durban Airport.
Landing in Port Elizabeth was a welcome,no rain, but PE living up to its name , the windy city, wow it was blowing,
Addo was great we fonud a nice heard of Elephant and othe Buck we havent seen, but in all parks we saw so many Kudu like i havent before.

Knysna , Oudsthoorn and the trip to Cape Town was as normal with the grain being transformed in colour and different landscapes. Cape Towm overcast and didnt get Table Mountain, but all had a great visit, with a 9 am wine tasteing, all were happy.
Farewell dinner was awesome with Kudu steak really good.
Sadly we had to say good bye to 11, and the rest of the 22 had to wake up at three am for the flight to JHB and on to Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, on arrival YES please the temperature was was nice and hot 35 deg C .

The Falls were a little low but it was still awesome, everyone was very tired and some had to rise early again for the Elephant ride, then the Market walk and the  $100000000000000 one hundred trillion dollar bill.
Then it was the helicopter flighs and the Sunset Cruise,
Wednesday morning it was Chobe, two groups back found Lions then the group ahead of us had a Leopard kill, so I was Possitive we would get both and with in 20 min we had both cats. a great heard of sable and thousands of Elephants.

The fare well (last Supper) with the group went well with lots of tears and I pulled of a great Suprise Bithday wish and cake and all the staff sang to Barbara, she was very happy,
Many awesome word were said by all
I want to thank everyone who was in volved  with this trip it was an amazing adventure,

Kruger here we come

Well Joberg and Pretoria done. All seem happy with the trip so far ,
Tomorrow we head to wards Kruger park. We will drive via the Blyde Cannyon down to White river  to the Winkler hotel
The weather has got a bit better since the storm we had but still very cool at night
All were happy at the voortrekker monument as the stairs helped with circulation and a bit of excercise well that's all for now not much to fill you all in on just yet I will write again on Monday night after the first game drive in Kruger , I hope we will be lucky as we were at Entabeni.

Last day at Entabeni

Well in the night the rain sneaked in but not enough to keep the guests away from their last game drive .
We heard lions rawing around 5:20 am so we went on the search for them , after 2 hours we finally got wind of the one we haven't seen yet , the big male ,
Yes we got him sleeping in the middle of no where .

After breakfast we packed up and departed for Johannesburg, not a bad trip till we got to Pretoria then the weather changed from a blue sky windy day to , wow a monster of a storm ,in the distance I could see Johannesburg was getting hammered by rain but was not expecting what we drove into .
First the rain came then a little hail the more rain , then the wipers of the bus broke , there was loads of water on the road everyone was driving with their emergency lights on , cars were sliding all over the place we passed a truck then a massive bang , the truck had a blowout , then there was snow everywhere .
SPRING my left foot the temperature has dropped and is freezing

So that was our day
Now I am waiting for the rest of the group tarrive
Tomorrow is Soweto and the welcome speech

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Day 3 Entabeni

Wow wow wow , what an awesome morning drive
We left the camp at 6:30 and around 7:15 we had found three female lionesses we followed them around and there were a tower of giraffe watching them as well as a herd of Wildebeast, the one female lioness walked straight Towards the giraffe the giraffe walked towards the lioness, then they turned and split up , the
Inness had her eye on one and the other two laid down waiting as if were planned the first lioness chased the giraffe straight to the other two, one of them took the chase , WOW to watch the acceleration of the lioness was awesome, lucky for the giraffe it got away by kicking the lioness in the face and that was the end of that fun and games .
We left the area and drove around for about half an hour then we came across the mom and 4 cubs we saw on day one, they were playing with a wild bore ,not a warthog, and The two cubs were trying to tackle the bore but the bore kept turning on them we followed them for a while but then had to let others in to see the lions , so I don't know if the bore got away or if mom sorted it out.
But two attempted kills in one morning what a morning , one I won't forget in a while, and I think the guest will remember.
I have a photo of one cub trying with the bore , when I get a card reader I will put the photo on the blog .
Two more drives left the weather is starting to turn so we will see what happens .

Wild side camp, Entabeni

Well day one at Wild Side , wow ,
The first game drive this eveningwed 3 rd we found a couple of Giraffe , Kudu,Wildebeast,Zebra,one jackel then we heard over the radio that a lion had a kill .
So we set of in the direction and came across two male Cheetah, sadly just too dark and far for photos  then we continued for the lions , well no kill but mom and 4 cubs, those of you who were here with me earlier the same cubs that were on the kill , but all grown up. I will put photos on face book when I get a card reader as I don't have one yet.
Dinner the talk was all about the cats and how awes.ome the drive was.
So far so good tomorrow  6 am drive i hope we find the cats in day light for photos