Monday, October 5, 2009

Safari Day 1







They fed us a buffet lunch, and then we hung out by the pool for about an hour. The Reserve also runs a cheetah rehabilitation program, so they brought out on of the cheetahs that had recently had surgery and his sister. They were really playful and loved big piles of sand. Fun fact- never look at a cheetah with sunglasses on. They’ll see their own reflection and attack your face. Or something like that.

We left on safari in a big 4x4 with about 10 other people. Our guide was really great and handed out blankets which we thoroughly enjoyed. Sean really developed an eye for spotting big game, so I think he was particularly appreciated by the van.


The first stop was the cheetahs, who are in a separate area of the reserve (so are the lions, but everything else was together). Here they are lounging:



The lions were the ones we had to stay the farthest from. There was one male and two females:


We saw a lot of zebra (zeh-bra) who were pretty friendly and didn’t seem very intimidated by us.



The guide made fun of us for taking pictures of Springbok, since they were eeeeeverywhere, but this one was very sneaky and adorable:
We also saw giraffes, but we got a much better few of them on Day 2 , so I'll save those pictures.

Our final sighting of the first day was the white rhino (even though both the white and the black rhino are pretty much grey). He came so close to us and was eating grass right on the side of road. I think he liked the attention, since he seemed to be making a point to give us good photo angles.



That night they fed us a big dinner, after which we thoroughly collapsed.

1 comment:

  1. I wanted to comment specifically on the first picture, but I think its pretty applicable- Your Mom is such a G! these pictures are incredible looks like you guys had a great time!

    ReplyDelete