Game Drives and the Bush House waterhole

I didn't see the wild dog at the Bush Lodge but I did see a black rhino for the 1st time. We saw him on the way back to camp on the 1st game drive. We also saw a small pride of lions on the way back after the rhino. It was the pride with the limping male. He was beaten up pretty badly in a fight and they fixed his leg and kept him in a holding tank for a long time. They finally released him and he found his brother and the 2 females. He can't keep up with the pride and lags behind but if he gets into trouble he calls out to his brother and he goes back and defends him. I also saw a gemsbok for the 1st time along with a few new birds. One of them was a rare black form of the Gabar Goshawk. The game drives were pretty quiet. We found another pride of lions, 2 males, 2 females and come cubs. This pride moved into the territory of the limping males when there was a fire in Madikwe. We also found a herd of over 100 buffalo. There was a lot of action at the waterhole in front of the lodge. I think I saw more there than on the drives. Twice there were over 20 elephants at the waterhole!

Road trip! -Sun City South Africa

We decided to take a road trip on Nha's last weekend in Botswana. We were meeting up with Marco and Andy where working in Jo'burg. We started out early at 7am and headed to the Tlokweng border post. We got thru pretty quickly and turned on the road that takes you to Madikwe. The 1st part of it is paved and after the Tau gate it is gravel/dirt. We were going for a while on the dirt and there was a noise and Linda said, that noise is funny, is it supposed to be making that noise. Nha had driven on that road to pick me up at Makanyane a few weeks previous and he said it is just the noise from the road and checked the mirror and looked at the tires and said they were fine. The noise continued and then all of a sudden the back end of the truck started fish-tailing. I had never been driving when getting a flat before. We stopped and the tire was shredded! Lucky we had Nha, he changed the tire, we threw it in the back of the truck and were on our way. The dirt went on for a long time and we had to be careful not to blow another tire since we didn't have another spare. Let me tell you the signs in Africa are terrible. We thought we were lost so many times because there weren't any signs saying this way to Sun City or Pilanesburg. Finally there was a sign and we knew we were going the right way. Then there would be no signs again, 40 mins later there would be another signs with a city we knew. Stressful! We made it there walked around, did some shopping, had lunch and then met up with Marco and Andy. I thought Sun City was going to be better than it was. It really isn't anything like Vegas but we had a good time and the we were off to the zip!

Zip line- Sun City, South Africa

5 of us were doing the zip line, Marco was an observer since he had arleady done it twice and Jean stayed back at the hotel. Marco used my camera and took pictures of all of us coming down. It was a lot of fun. I can't wait to go back and do it again! This is the longest and fastest zipline in the world. It says you get up to 70mph but we didn't get going that fast. If you look at the 2nd picture. I am up at the top you go down past the dirt square and then back to the square where they get you off the line. It was well worth the R340!

Work, work, work and more work!

I haven't been very good about posting this year but all I do is work! I am so tired. We also work on Sat so the only day we really have to do anything is on Sunday. I have done some shopping and I am going to buy a carved wooden chair. It will take some work getting it home! Nha and I have been playing tennis at the Gaborone Sun on the weekends and today after work we went and watch the guys from work play in a soccer tournament with some of the other companies in the park. Tomorrow we are driving to Sun City and going on the zip line! It is the fastest in the world. You go 7o mph and you are hooked in so you fly like superman! It should be fun. I will try to post pics sooner than I did for my safari.

I also have been feeding the family of stray cats in the apartment complex. It is a mom and 3 kittens. They were always tearingup the trash so I started buying cat food and leaving it in a bowl. They don't tear up the trash anymore but the other day there was another cat there too. The kittens were so small at least they are getting some regular food daily!