Morning game drive by ourselves

Well, my worst fears came true during the night. The car alarm went off four times, and the only reason we could think of was the key that was causing some sensors to malfunction. Anne slept through most of the alarms, but in total they went off six times, three times in the late evening and another three times spread throughout the night.

In the morning, albeit a bit groggy from the constantly interrupted sleep, we went for a game self - drive before sitting down to get our work done. We had some cheese on crackers for breakfast on the road, and set off on an itinerary I had guesstimated to be around 90min long, the time we had before Anne's first meeting of the day. We were visiting the park during wet season, which meant, quite literally, water everywhere. This made it harder to spot animals because they were not concentrated around the watering holes, seeing how they could find water deeper in the bush, well away from humans. It also meant that some of the roads were muddy messes with gigantic potholes.

As we were driving along the road I had chosen, well away from the main road, we noticed some fresh poop on the road. Lo and behold, just one more turn and suddenly there was a roadblock - a moving roadblock consisting of a herd of elephants. I was able to count at least 16 of them, though I'm sure there were more out of sight.

I'm a confrontation between car and elephant, we would be on the losing end, therefore we kept a safe distance to them, which also meant we were unable to overtake them for quite some time. Once they had cleared the road, suddenly there was a giraffe gracefully crossing the road right in front of us. She posed like a model for us, before heading off into the bush.

We continued our loop, along a road unfittingly called 'Rhino Drive" because we could spot a single rhino, and made it back just in time for Anne's meeting.Read more