Chaminuka Safari

We went to Chaminuka on a super super super bumpy, super super dusty road. Once we got there we went on a safari. We saw: hyenas, lions, giraffe, wart hogs, gazelle, ostriches, elephants, pukus, jacuna, and lots of other things. It was a two hour drive. Me and Finny super super extra extra extra liked it! Daddy didn’t come with us, he had to go on a meeting.

At the lodge, after we had tea, we saw leopard rugs! It was a real skin but the leopard wasn’t alive any more…it was just a rug. I would rather have seen a real leopard running around outside! (But I got to put my hand inside the leopard mouth!) At first I thought it was a cheetah but we looked it up and found out it was a leopard.

We saw three giraffes. I thought the neck of a giraffe was taller! I thought it was as tall as a tree but it was smaller. Once the hyenas dug under the fence and ate the oldest lion. I thought it might dig not where the lions are but where the people are and it might have eaten some people! But they just ate the lion. We couldn’t go in to see the lions because the lions were eating. We just saw one.

We saw a baby elephant! It was so cute. I think there are just three elephants there – we saw all of them. They were eating grass - or hay.

We saw goats on the road – LOTS of goats!

We saw ostriches, too. We saw TWELVE ostriches. Seven were running all together in the grass – and one was running by itself when we saw them. We just could see the tops of their heads – we could barely see their legs because the grass was SO tall. The grass was taller than daddy! When we were leaving and mommy was driving we saw four more. Two were just sitting on the road – then they stood up and walked off the road and we passed by. I was surprised that they were SO SO SO big! They have wings but they can’t fly! They can run and when they ran they were pretty fast. So fast I couldn't even get a good picture!

I took a photograph of mom and dad – it looks like a little elephant is crawling into daddy’s ear!