Thursday, May 17, 2007

My ranger walk




Now after the morning safari we get to go on a ranger walk. Everyone on my truck decided not to go. Lucky me I had my own personal guide. Now it is out in the wild with all the predators and game with no protective fences. From the lodge I saw an elephant come come to the watering hole just off the balcony. He went down into a ravine. I walked out to the meeting place and saw a warthog eating the grass. They call them the lawn mowers. I told Cameron's that I saw him go there so he said "lets check it out". Now all we have is a rifle that will supposedly protect us if he hits the animal at the perfect angle in one shot if it charges. Well we came across him and this guy just sat and checked us out. In fact it was the pierced ear fella. He flared his ears to let us know he's boss and then went along to graze the river bed. We decided to go up the river bed bank to find another way out. As we reached the top there was the group of Giraffes. The whole trip was awesome just sneaking up to the animals and see them just freak out when they noticed us. That walk I learned of all the different plants and it's medicinal features and uses. And the scat of the animals. One strange one was this pure white one that was of the Hyena's. They have one of the strongest jaw bones of all the animal kingdom. They eat the whole animal when they get their prey. Bones and all. Thus the only part that isn't digested is the ground up dust of the bones. Yuck.

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