Efforts to reintroduce the White Rhino at Hluhluwe-Imfolozi--ten points if you figure out how to pronounce that--have been so successful that this game actually got boring. My friend Rex and I figured we'd better play it while we had the chance, though, as rhino sightings are rare at Davidson.
We hadn't been in the park but fifteen minutes or so when Rex spotted this elephant. We turned the car around in case we had to make a break for it; it seems elephants take more umbrage to being gawked at than other animals in the park and have a tendency to rush cars. Rex was pretty sure that we could outrun it, but better safe than gored by an elephant.
The view from our camp.
Giraffes are very strange animals.
Hippos at Lake St. Lucia. They are rather boring during the day but apparently roam the streets of the nearby town at night, terrorizing residents and drinking from swimming pools. No joke about the terrorizing part--hippos kill more people than any other animal in Africa.
In Romania we would yell "Buna Vaca" out the windows (which means "Hello cow") and count how many cows turn their heads. It's a pretty good number. Not as cool as rhinos, but hey, you get what you get :o)
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