They say that everything comes in three’s. I’m beginning to think the old expression has more and more substance as I get older. 3 Wild Dog sightings in three days. We hadn’t seen a single dog for four and a half months. It’s a bit strange all the same. The sighting the other day was amazing. I had to stop the car on the way to Kruger for a big Bull Elephant and then a Wild Dog. In the middle of the road. Unlike Louis at home however, these dogs actually have a bit of cop on and get off the road if they see a car coming. Not that they moved very far. They just plopped themselves down at the side of the road and took an auld snooze. Sure it was seven O’clock and they had probably been up since half four!
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, another surprise pops up. We were on our way out of the College when we see 3 Giraffe( Tower of Giraffe ) munching on an old Buffalo carcass. Now I’ve read about this phenomenon known as osteophagia in books but didn’t think I’d see it from ten metres and so close to home! We were actually on our way out for the day when this happened. We were going out on a drive to the Panorama route. I don’t think that SA has the unique title to a Panorama route as I think myself and the Quirke went on one down south around Melbourne direction in Oz a good few years ago. I think they call it the same thing. There are the 12 Apostles and 3 sisters and a few other aptly named rock structures. Well SA has the 3 Rondavels. They are quite scenic actually. We continued on to see another look out point called God’s window but unfortunately God didn’t have the window wipers on today. We couldn’t see a thing as there was a thick mass of mist at the top of the mountain. We did offer to keep Gods window clean but no one was listening!
We headed off back in the direction of home but we came upon an interesting sign for a place called Echo Caves. We went in to reception and a surprised and confused guy in reception asked us “You actually want to see the Caves?” The omens were bad! A lady called Victoria offered to show us around. She was quite a good guide. Aside from the fact that she would intermittently snort like a Warthog. I was waiting for her to hock one up! I think it’s an African thing as some of the lads in our class do it as well. It was a first though to hear a girl doing it and obviously the auld sound resonance in the caves didn’t help her cause! As I said already, she was quite entertaining with her simplified version of the momentous events that led to the discovery of the caves. I’ll leave that till another day. She did point out the “Bat shit,” to us though and told us that it was “very dirty.” As we moved through the cave she did point out a piece of rock that looked like a face of someone with a beard. She suggested to us that it could be “Bin Laden.” She also told us earlier that she was bringing a bus load of tourists from Iran down to the chambers later on that afternoon. I forgot to tell her not to use the Bin Laden joke with them!
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, another surprise pops up. We were on our way out of the College when we see 3 Giraffe( Tower of Giraffe ) munching on an old Buffalo carcass. Now I’ve read about this phenomenon known as osteophagia in books but didn’t think I’d see it from ten metres and so close to home! We were actually on our way out for the day when this happened. We were going out on a drive to the Panorama route. I don’t think that SA has the unique title to a Panorama route as I think myself and the Quirke went on one down south around Melbourne direction in Oz a good few years ago. I think they call it the same thing. There are the 12 Apostles and 3 sisters and a few other aptly named rock structures. Well SA has the 3 Rondavels. They are quite scenic actually. We continued on to see another look out point called God’s window but unfortunately God didn’t have the window wipers on today. We couldn’t see a thing as there was a thick mass of mist at the top of the mountain. We did offer to keep Gods window clean but no one was listening!
We headed off back in the direction of home but we came upon an interesting sign for a place called Echo Caves. We went in to reception and a surprised and confused guy in reception asked us “You actually want to see the Caves?” The omens were bad! A lady called Victoria offered to show us around. She was quite a good guide. Aside from the fact that she would intermittently snort like a Warthog. I was waiting for her to hock one up! I think it’s an African thing as some of the lads in our class do it as well. It was a first though to hear a girl doing it and obviously the auld sound resonance in the caves didn’t help her cause! As I said already, she was quite entertaining with her simplified version of the momentous events that led to the discovery of the caves. I’ll leave that till another day. She did point out the “Bat shit,” to us though and told us that it was “very dirty.” As we moved through the cave she did point out a piece of rock that looked like a face of someone with a beard. She suggested to us that it could be “Bin Laden.” She also told us earlier that she was bringing a bus load of tourists from Iran down to the chambers later on that afternoon. I forgot to tell her not to use the Bin Laden joke with them!
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