Christine's Rantings

Monday, November 05, 2007

Greetings from South Africa (Again)

I am back here for work. I just missed the nasty rain so it is sunny and beautiful (23 today). Luckily, I was able to spend the weekend with Derryth’s parents and they took me to a really nice private game reserve called Tala. We saw tons of animals;

  • Blesbuck
  • Buffalo
  • Eland
  • Giraffe
  • Grey Crane (national bird of SA and apparently quite rare)
  • Hippopotamus
  • Impala
  • Nyala
  • Ostrich
  • Reedbuck
  • Rhinoceros (with a baby)
  • Secretary Bird
  • Warthog
  • Waterbuck
  • Wildebeest
  • Zebra
  • Numerous different Herons including one eating a snake
  • Tons of other ducks and birds (Egyptian geese, swallow, kite, moorhen, cormorant, lark, weaver, bishop something or other, long tailed king whatsit)
  • Pam and Jim saw a huge monitor lizard but I missed it as apparently I am blind!
  • Oh and we pissed off a Rhino and almost got charged. His horn was about 3 feet long.
Here are a few pictures;

Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Father and Son
Baby Zebra
Arty Giraffe
Many Giraffes
Buffalo