Papparazzi
We were pretty flat out for the last week and hadn’t been able to really have any time for ourselves but that’s the guides lifestyle and as long as you’re in the bush it’s ok. I was out for my first game walk. It was great. We kind of stuck to a bit of a trail but I got distracted by Wildebeest and we started to track them. I went on the walk with a father and daughter combination from the good old US of A. We were able to walk to within 15 metres of Giraffe, Wildebeest, Warthog, Zebra and Impala. I’ve gotta say that it was magic.
I thought I’d be more nervous than I was but it felt good to be able to explain about stuff to people who weren’t your regular bush or wild life types.
We did a good bit of tracking and we came across some cool insects and tree’s and plants. The guys didn’t ask me too many difficult questions and it gave me a bit of a confidence boost that I knew the answers to their questions. I’m sure I’m gonna be treading water on some walks but this one at least finished well. It was funny because the guys were over with another brother and a brother in law. The brother in law was from South Africa though and he’s a celebrity here.
They asked me to give them a guided tour of Kruger so I brought them in and everywhere we went people knew him. We actually hadn’t gotten to Kruger before we saw our first Lions. We saw them on the way to the Orpen Gate. It was the first time I had seen any Lions here. A good few people had gotten out of their cars to take pictures and I told them to be careful and not go too close to the fence. They looked at me as if I had two heads! I’m sure they were saying “knowitall,” and then a funny thing happened. The dads son, Daniel went up closer to the fence and one of the Lioness’ charged him. It was funny because he jumped a bit and ran for the car. We made a bit of a song and dance about it to him and we couldn’t let him get away with running from a Lion. We had literally been talking about the thing not to do with Lions and then he goes and does exactly the opposite. We continued on our merry way and we arrived in the first rest camp and loads of girls kept coming up to the celeb asking him to pose for pictures. It was hilarious. He would be the equivalent of Miley in Glenrow although I’d say the girls like him more than poor auld Miley! We ended up having to act as minders and get him out of the park in the end because people were asking him for autographs. I talked to his father in law about it and we both agreed we wouldn’t have the patience for the fame. Mutodi was the chaps name and he was a cool guy. No bullshit and we got on really well. It was good to meet such nice people on my first drive. check the guy out @ www.myspace/mutodi
We did a good bit of tracking and we came across some cool insects and tree’s and plants. The guys didn’t ask me too many difficult questions and it gave me a bit of a confidence boost that I knew the answers to their questions. I’m sure I’m gonna be treading water on some walks but this one at least finished well. It was funny because the guys were over with another brother and a brother in law. The brother in law was from South Africa though and he’s a celebrity here.
They asked me to give them a guided tour of Kruger so I brought them in and everywhere we went people knew him. We actually hadn’t gotten to Kruger before we saw our first Lions. We saw them on the way to the Orpen Gate. It was the first time I had seen any Lions here. A good few people had gotten out of their cars to take pictures and I told them to be careful and not go too close to the fence. They looked at me as if I had two heads! I’m sure they were saying “knowitall,” and then a funny thing happened. The dads son, Daniel went up closer to the fence and one of the Lioness’ charged him. It was funny because he jumped a bit and ran for the car. We made a bit of a song and dance about it to him and we couldn’t let him get away with running from a Lion. We had literally been talking about the thing not to do with Lions and then he goes and does exactly the opposite. We continued on our merry way and we arrived in the first rest camp and loads of girls kept coming up to the celeb asking him to pose for pictures. It was hilarious. He would be the equivalent of Miley in Glenrow although I’d say the girls like him more than poor auld Miley! We ended up having to act as minders and get him out of the park in the end because people were asking him for autographs. I talked to his father in law about it and we both agreed we wouldn’t have the patience for the fame. Mutodi was the chaps name and he was a cool guy. No bullshit and we got on really well. It was good to meet such nice people on my first drive. check the guy out @ www.myspace/mutodi
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