One Last day at Elephant Sands

Waking up at 5am the sky was a blazing orange and as we unzipped our tent to watch the sunrise, we realised everyone else was up at there tent doors aswell. It was a spectacular display of nature first thing in the morning and once the sun had risen above the safari cabins we all headed down to the restaurant for our buffet breakfast. Most of us chose the full English, Atleast England is good for something.
For the rest of the day we just chilled out. There were charging stations by the bar and free WiFi so at some point during the rest of the morning we all sat there and caught up with our social media and emails.
After a tuna salad which Hilda made for lunch we soaked in the pool, Ellie went to catch up on some sleep and the rest of us had gin and tonics and some beers whilst watching the elephants come to the watering hole. At one point we had 14 animals all making a semi circle around the outside of the watering hole, and then the lodge owners came to the bar area with 3 baby mongoose they had rescued and we all got to play with them and give them a cuddle. They are remarkably like ferrets.
At 5pm Pieter went off to make the camp fire and start dinner and an hour later the rest of us joined him, all the vegetables were prepped and in a crockpot and he put the vegetable curry in the fire and 2 hours later it was ready.
While we ate our curry and rice 2 big male elephants were fighting with each other not 50 meters in front of us, it was amazing and possibly a once in a lifetime experience.
After dinner we all went back to the restaurant and sat around the open fire pit with elephants right in front of us and I positioned everyone around the fire and set my camera up and got an awesome shot of the campfire with everyone looking across the waterhole and a huge elephant staring back at us in the dark.
Then it was back to camp and into our tents for bed, whilst yet more elephants passed by the fronts of our tents.Read more