Game Drive (5-8-10)

Our last night in Gaberone was an exciting one. Caroline has a friend in the city named Barney and we went to his house for dinner. He actually lives in a village just outside of town and the supposedly short drive took us more than 45 minutes. Caroline was directing, I was driving and we ended up at the game reserve. LOL. Yes we are geographers, but we have no since of direction. Barney lives in the best house. It has a lovely thatched roof and is huge. He has 7 dog for protection including the largest dog I have ever seen, a wolfhound (photos to come). After a lovely dinner of mutton curry, a first of mutton for me, we relaxed watched rugby and chilled.

We made it back to the lodge at nidnight. And the place was closed up for the night. My colleuges in the backseat were a bit on the drunk side and did not help matters much. LOL. We called the gatekeeper, dragged him out of bed, and 30 minutes later we made it into the lodge. I have some great pictures of Tim trying to open the electric fence. Maybe I will post later!

We started our trek to Maun, Botswana. Instead of completing the 8 hour drive in one day we made the excellent decision of stopping at Khama Rhino Sanctuary. After pitching our tents we set out on our first game drive. WIthin 10 minutes of leaving we spotted our first white rhino several impala, and a girafee. All things that I have seen in a zoo, but when you are 20 feet away from them in the back of a pickup it is amazing. The giraffe were probably the coolest of all the animals we saw. With their crazy tongue and odd ability to strip leaves from a tree with HUGE thorns. There were more animals on our trip that I can tell, but I did keep a full list. Several of note: Zebra, Ostrich, and Wildabeast.

Ok getting ready to call it a night. Wrote the original draft from my tent in the rhino sanctuary. Lets just hope the rhino don't know this part of the park. I have been reassured several times by Tim that he will run to my rescue if a lion decides to make an appearance.....Later All!