Getting Bushy with it

Addo Elephant Park

When I first arrived in Cape Town I thought okay this is just another city like Vancouver except it was these beautiful beaches surrounding it and a little bit of a different culture.

But when arriving in Addo I now felt and saw Africa.

We stayed in these cabins with four beds in it. Nikki, Robyn,
Ross and I now had to share the same living quarters and BATHROOM for the next 3 days.
Let’s call this glorified camping,
which hey I don’t mind I love camping even without the bathroom.

Mom and Wilf stayed in a cottage which was very cute as it was more of a studio,
but it over looked the trees and you could see the bush for miles.

We started our first night off with a braai (South African term for a BBQ)
except it’s on an open fire pit basically on stilts.

The following day we decided to take our huge van (comby) into the reserve with a tour guide.  Our tour guides name was Simi this guy was SO funny. 
He cracked this one joke as we were entering the park, there were these people in a car ahead of us looking at a map and he goes:
“ah yes that over there is the human species, very unpredictable”

I nearly died laughing.

Here are a few pictures/videos of our first adventure.

nice BUM where ya From

 

Elands, look alot like Deer

Now we took us to this place where you could hear the elephants roaring in the distance, he told us we where now allowed to get out of the vehicle so Nikki, Robyn, Ross and I took off running not knowing that there was going to be a fence in-between us. So as we are running I hear this loud roar that actually sounded like an elephant and I nearly peed myself I jumped and ran the other way.

Ross made me keep going, thanks Ross ha-ha.

That evening we went out for dinner at the restaurant they had there, we told them it was Nikki’s Birthday because the night before Nikki and I had walked down and they were singing these beautiful African songs to a young girl whose Birthday it was.
SO WHY THE HELL NOT can we not celebrate Nikki’s Birthday a few days later.
It only seems fair.

Here they are singing:

Pictures from the Information Center on animals and history of the reserve:

SELFIE

Our next experience started at 5:30, therefore we had to get up at 4:30, and this is mainly because the Lions are out roaming at this time.
But as Simi said the day before
“don’t look for the animals, let the animals come to you, otherwise you will never see the ones you want.”

But we struck gold; our first stop was off the main reserve road as we where now in one of those big Safari jeeps. As we approach this small watering hole I literally couldn’t believe my eyes, there in front of me is not one but TWO Lions. This is where I thought I am going to die, this lion is going to attack our Jeep and it’s going to be oh so easy because we don’t have any doors.
GREAT.

Well I can say I am alive.

The Lions basically took no notice of us because they where off
tracing their area and marking their zone so the other Lions knew that this is their territory.

THE REAL SAFARI :

The Gates to the Reserve

SO COLD 5:30 AM

Buffalo

We had a gerat time in Addo, Mum got mugged by some Monkeys had to literally chase them out with a stick all awhile looking at her like 

"girl this is my hood". 

They stole a couple of buns and terrorized the cabin she was in, as she barricaded herself i

n and they tried to open the doors to 

EAT HER. 

Just kidding... 

but really they where just "monkeying around". ;)


The Great Five , Plettenberg Bay
we saw 3 out of 5!