Saturday, September 16, 2017

Tintswalo

We took our morning drive, had breakfast, packed and took a 2 hour ride in a van to the next camp that was 30 miles away as the crow flies.  Too bad we weren't a crow.
Arrived at Tintswalo, don't forget the "n", and watched a bunch of elephants drinking from a hose dropping fresh water from a tree by the deck.
I put some pictures on google drive and posted a link that you might have to copy and paste to see them.
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B2_UOJHWOLwfZVhLZ0xNV0p2elE

There is also some pictures of our "tent", larger than 90% of most people's houses.  Dining room, bedroom with fireplace, chairs, desk, closet, huge bath with shower and tub, and deck with private plung pool.
Our guide asked what we wanted to see and I told him that Paul was begging to see the wild dogs.  "Well there were some around this morning, we didn't see them, but let's try."
They were in and out of the Land Cruiser looking and tracks and grunting and after a couple hours we found a pack of 9 dogs after parking near a young male lion.
The dogs were resting and our guide and tracker were very excited as they might find them once a month if that often.  They have a huge range and often go off their property.
Then the lion started walking toward the dogs and the Alpha went up and started bouncing around like a Dahl Terrier (sorry Leslie).  The dogs eventually retreated and the lion walked within petting distance to check out where they had rested.
Came back to camp and had a nice dinner then to bed and up at 5:00 for this morning's drive.
It's WSU vs OSU at about 11:30 tonight so not sure if I'll be up for the game but told Paul, he is a Beaver, I'd call if the Cougs are winning.




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