Safari!!!

One of the rules of the King's Camp lodge is that you can not walk anywhere alone after dark. Creepy-right? The lodge itself has a low, surrounding electric fence, but that is only intended to keep elephants out as they trample and destroy everything in their path. There is one leopard who likes to come into camp every once in a while to see whats going on. There are also baboons and impala that come in. We found out last night that none of these are the reason we must be escorted at night. After blogging, it was pretty late, and we had Oscar (who is our escort and keeper of the flashlight) walk us down the single path to our room. Every step there was either a scorpion, snake or other creepy, unidentified object. Ugh!

Okay, so we woke up this morning, at 5:15 a.m., we opened our front door and, HELLO, an impala was right there munching on our little tree. We had a little stare down and around the corner came her little baby. So sweet. We walked around them as they continued to munch, had some coffee and loaded into the vehicle for our morning drive. Not 2 minutes into the drive, we came across 6 giraffe having their breakfast. One of them was a small baby, whose legs were obviously still unstable. We drove more and came across many Impala, Kudoo, and Waterbuck.
Another hour in and we came across a small herd of elephant. Beautiful! They acknowledged us and continued to eat. This herd had two, very small babies. At least one of them, was still nursing. We watched them for a while and gently moved closer. Another vehicle from our camp came flying in a little too quickly, which really set one of the little guys off. He began "trumpeting" and flaring out his jumbo ears. He clearly thought that he was much bigger than he actually was. We were well entertained by him!

After that, we pulled up to a large watering hole for some coffee and biscuits. We watched the hippos across the way and those that needed to, had an opportunity to "shake the grass." This is my new favorite term :)
We drove some more and saw a few more elephants, before we pulled onto a spot by a dry riverbed for a "Bush Breakfast." Basically, all of the staff from the lodge brought breakfast to us and we enjoyed it out in the bush. From there, the tracker drove our vehicle back to the lodge and we did a bush walk with our guide. We received our instructions to walk in a single file line and always follow his instructions. If we "bump" into something, we were to stand very still. He proceeded to load up his riffle and off we went. The elephants were close but not too close. Other than that, we only saw a few birds and some spider nests, before making it back to the lodge. The rest of the day was really relaxing. We had our first workout since leaving the states and took a dip in the pool.

We are on our way out for our evening drive and Im really hoping to see a lion! We are only a buffalo and a lion away from seeing all of the "big five". Im really looking forward to another hot bath drawn upon our return and dinner in the Boma.

We have another drive, here, in the morning and then we jump on a bush plane to head to our next lodge. yikes. I will update again once we get there.

XOXO