Our last morning in South Africa started with another 6am drive and amazing sunrise!
We started down by the river and saw a water buck with the ring on his bum and a few hippos.
We saw quite a few pairs of rhinos that morning.
With about 2 hours left of our time on safari, we were getting a bit worried we wouldn't have a close encounter with an elephant.
Hannah loves cheetahs, but the other 3 girls all said their favorite safari animal was an elephant
We had seen tracks:
Saw where one had scraped mud onto a tree:
Saw many, many, many piles of pooh everywhere we went:
Even touched it:
I wore an elephant shirt one day.
Photo courtesy of Macy..I had to bribe her with taking a photo to smile for one I took!
We did spot on in the distance the night before. They have a rule at the park that you can't off road for elephants and rhinos. Partly because of safety of maneuvering a vehicle around a large animal, but also because they aren't considered rare because of the population of them in the park.
Luckily, 3 little girls didn't need to head home disappointed.
We spotted a group of 5 males.
They moved on, and so did we.
They were on a mission to find the ladies.
About 50 females and young elephants were about 500 yards ahead.
They were nice enough to cross right in front of us!
This group had one male with it.
After we could no longer see the elephants we moved on and found more giraffes.
And rhinos.......
A busy morning of animal tracking made the girls thirsty for hot chocolate.
Life is Good with a grand finale of an elephant herd!
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