Friday, April 12, 2013

On Safari...

What I love most about a safari is that you wake each day to a new day of discovery. Even though you may wake in the same place and at the same hour; it is never the same.


One morning you may see an elephant walking down the road, while in the afternoon you join a mother leopard out enjoying a sunset stroll with her cub.

Leopard & Cub

Leopard

On another day you may be tracking rare black Rhino with your Ranger Ryan and tracker Mr "T" or listening to Ranger Craig tell you a moving life and death story about a mother elephant desperately trying to save her dying young...only to no avail!


Us with Ranger Ryan and Tracker Mr. "T"



You might enjoy a bush breakfast of burned animal shaped pancakes that taste better than any Michelin chef's, because the guides Andrew and William are so engaging and fun that you cry from laughter.



PANCAKES!
 

Or you go tracking cheetah with a filmaker named Kim who has such a passion for wildlife that you can't help being moved to embrace it yourself.I had as much fun tracking him in the bush as I did the Cheetah!

Tracking the Cheetah


Tracker Mr. "T"

Your day can be a quiet walk all alone on a barren salt pan of the Makgadikgadi where the only sound is the wind, and you find such peace in the silence that it brings great joy of the spirit, or it can be a mecoru ride in the Delta where the lillies unfold before your eyes and the sounds of birds and frogs make your heart sing.



Salt Pan
 

Mecoru Boats
Frog in the Delta

Lillies on the Delta



What you take away from all of this is that the future does not lie ahead of you waiting to happen...


  

A Giraffe
   
Hippos with Tortoises

Brothers



....it lies deep inside you waiting to be discovered.




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