Volunteer Trip April 2023

5:20am and the alarm goes off. Although I have been up since 4:30. Time to wake the Volunteers up for their second game drive. I go around to each room and quietly knock on their doors, but to my surprise they are all up. Bright eyed and bushy tailed.
On my way back to my room I decided to take a quick dip into the swimming pool. It's beautifully cold.
Makayla makes her way to the lodge with the Game vehicle and we all pile in.
We are on the look out for a cheetah
🐆. The sun starts to raise and you can feel the planet 🌎 start to warm up. The animals start to stretch and open their eyes and the air is full of bird song.
The cheetah and its cub seem to be allusive. So Makayla makes the decision to see if we can find the lion 🦁 and lioness of we drive. Along the way we see many animals Giraffes 🦒 wildebeests and Zebras 🦓. I vice this place. We eventually spot the lion 🦁 laying in the road fast asleep. But with the noise of the vehicle it doesn't take long for them to wake up.
The lioness is on heat and the male lion 🦁 doesn't believe in foreplay...lol
Every time she moves he is there.
After a great Game drive we have some breakfast listening to Jade saying it was her best day ever.
We load into our Trustee vehicle and of we drive to the main gate. We take a right and drive to the second gate where the team will be do an elephant 🐘 interaction with Rambo a 12 tone male bull. Has the vehicle stops we till the volunteers and Jade bursts into tears again.
The elephant 🐘 interaction is one of the highlights of the trip and I love seeing the faces of the volunteers when Rambo comes over the hill.

Next stop Bongiwe house. Donated by Yoland and the Conway family back in the UK this house was built by our builds in Covid and we are making the journey back to Ubombo where the CoCo's Foundation started. This house is the hardest house that we have ever built. Where it is situated down a valley where the ground is mainly rock and there is no water and everything has to be walked in all 900 bricks 🧱 on the way down we make sure Ruth has someone in front and someone behind her, just incase.
Little did we know Jade was the one that fell and twisted her ankle.
We paint and seal the house.
I said it once many times.....lol the team crack on.
Jade follows me into one of the rooms and and there is this huge moth on the wall. It takes of and fillies towards Jade. Jade runs out screaming 😱 this is the sorest day of my life.....lol it mended her ankle.

Debs gets to meet Muma Sbongile, it's been too long..!
We then take the back dust road to home an hour of our bodies been jump around by driving on the dust road.
No Electricity at the Lodge means no water so straight out for something to eat at E.A.T before returning home for a shower as the electricity is back on.
Shattered what a day.......Les mer