Tuesday 1 October 2013

Trip to Imfolozi

Hello internet fangirls (and fanboys?),

this week we took a three day trip to Imfolozi Game Reserve and it was amazing! We saw so many animals and the only member of the big five we didn't see was a leopard.

List of animals we saw
28 rhinos (NO KIDDING)
7 lions (feeding on a buffalo)
5 zebra
10 giraffe
Lots of warthogs
Lots of vultures
Lots of buffalo
A cheetah
3 wild dogs
3 elephant
2 hyena (thank goodness no more)
Lots of different birds and eagles and stuff
MANY buck (and my little sister insisted on stopping at every. single. one.)

DAY 1
On the first day was braaing the chicken for our supper that night and a hyena came up behind him and he had to try and get inside with the meat (which he managed) and I think all us girls inside nearly wet ourselves. Being a dad, he kept trying to go outside to take pictures of the thing and mom got so angry with him she tried to forbid him to go outside which didn't exactly go as planned...

DAY 2
It was disgustingly hot and I think we all nearly died and only really saw animals in the very early morning but the day was not completely a waste as a herd of buffalo came charging through our campsite and amelie was beside herself making sure that no one was wearing red ;).

DAY 3
We saw lions eating a buffalo. FUN! *insert sarcstic voice*. It was pretty amazing though. We almost caused a traffic jam which was quite funny as well :D.

Amelie gave this profound speech in the car while looking for rhinos:

Amelie: Izzy my friends dog's leg got runned over by a car and its guts comed out!
Me: Wow Amie, its guts came out its leg?
Amelie: Ja! What are guts?

If you ever feel discouraged while in a game reserve because you aren't seeing animals, don't worry, if all else fails you will see buck. There will always be buck to spectate while they eat grass.

I love this one
CREDIT: my dad for the amazing pictures

On the extremely bright side I got the new Arctic Monkeys CD =D!

izzy