South Africa Day 2, Morning Drive

For our first morning drive, we were up at 4:45, enjoyed a quick coffee while the sun came up and then were on the road. Olaf and I were trying to be good passengers, using our binoculars to scour the trees for leopards.

Around 7:30am we stopped for a coffee break. We jumped out of the car and kept up our leopard search while Brett began to set up a little table for the coffee. I looked around a bush, and here comes a big bull elephant down the road, heading straight for us! We hopped in the car and watched while he literally crashed our party.

Here he comes!

Knocking over the table.

Pulling out and spilling our coffee.

Curiosity satisfied, he's off to scratch against a tree.

These next photo's were taken only for Mr. Adam Kolibaba, who likes insects. We saw so many of these millipede's on the walkways around the lodge. Some of them were 1/3in. thick.