We just completed another successful
This time Alfie was joined by me (Sabine) and our 5-years old son Joshua, junior tour guide. Oh dear, do we see you groan and look up to the Heavens?
He is fortunately very well behaved (I am proud to say :), so there was no cause for any disturbance to the clients. Joshua has now made some amazing ‘overseas adult’ friends. Thank you Gary & Marion for the amazing ‘cowboy-hat’ and all your kind playfulness with Josh (Josh showed his prized hat off in school); thank you Rob for being the ‘big brother’; thank you HRH Andrew (HRH – His Royal Highness) for allowing us ‘an audience’; thank you Mary & David for your ever present smiles and teaching us some sign language (David - thank you for enjoying Alfie & Mika’s food and cleaning the pots out) and thank you Tina for being our special senior friend.
Josh, cheetah cubs & Gary ...................... Andrew, cheetah cub & Mary
Our chosen game reserve turned out to be a huge highlight for all – as the 3 young Cheetah cubs 
with their mother
And to top is all off,
Lion 'cubs' with Gary & Marion..........Alfie, Josh & Sabine with cubs
The 2 lions cubs we were walking with (which are already the size of fully grown lions) were eyeing Josh out and he had to stay on top of his dad’s shoulders. The lions even took an interest in 3 rhinos at the waterhole, but then wisely decided that they were outnumbered!
Group with Rhinos & lion in background....Mary with Jessica the hippo
Jessica the hippo greeted us again with her wonderful smile and was happy to receive our food and rooibos tea. She is such a wonderful experience and delight to everybody.
On one of the Game Drives we saw a female lion with her 5 cubs and a little while later we followed a big male lion to join his family after a day out in the bush. The cubs where very happy to see him and one even tackled him.
Some of the special sightings this month were +15 hyenas eagerly ‘begging and laughing’ at 2 male lions feeding on a Zebra, with the rest of the lion pride (+6 lions) resting their full bellies in the shadow of the trees.
Lots of elephants with small calves feeding happily on the green bushes, white rhino, big herds of buffaloes, leopard, giraffes, zebras, impalas, banded Mongoose, Crocodiles, Hippos, Vervet Monkeys and plentiful bird-life
Everybody is home safely and I have added some of their comments below.
We had a great time :)
2 comments :
Hello Sabine, Alfie & Joshua
Hope you are all keeping well and back to normal again. It was hard to settle back into the routine but we are OK now but still lonely. I am sure you need a lot of rests Alfie after hundreds of miles of driving, you did a brilliant job.
We would like to thank you all for giving us a holiday of a lifetime, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves very much and many thanks for taking us on the tours which was spectacular. Also thanks for the lovely food to which David enjoyed them and he is not eating much at home now!!! Hope the the rest of the gang enjoyed Capetown. We’d love to go there but maybe one day. We intends to go back out there again in a few years time p.god.
Its very cold here in Ireland. I bet it hot out there in Sth Africa.
Take care and many thanks for your kindness.
Regards
David & Mary
Hi Sabine & Alfie
Firstly, I must thank you for a wonderful holiday. It was everything we expected and more and that was mostly due to you both.
Hope Joshua is ok and we must say what a lovely little fellow he is, he is a credit to you both.
Marion & Gary Boswell
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