Blogs from Mpumalanga , South Africa, Africa - page 62

The title pretty much sums up our animal experiences in our second trip to Kruger. Our own excursions into the Park were based near one of the southern camps around Skukuza and this time with the professional, we were further north near Orphen. Whilst we had the advantage of an open game viewer rather than a Renault Clio, if the animals aren't nearby you are going to see them....and most of the big cats remained as elusive as a South African policeman when you need one. There are therefore no lion piccies to add to this page, the leopards were probably hiding up a tree laughing as we went past and the only major sighting success was a very distant cheetah. The elephants were in abundance, as were the giraffes, zebras, wilderbeest and the ever present ... read more

Let me start by saying that we're not in Nelspruit in spite of what it says on this blog. We are in fact in Hazyview (the Bootjack of South Africa). I no longer know what's been happening for the last week and am not even certain of what I wrote about last time. Here's a quick recap. For those who don't know, Brick and Fred are Ashley's parents at whose home we lived for four (three?) days while in Wilderness. Ashley is a co-worker of mine at George's office. She is South African. Wilderness is a beautiful coastal town scarcely on the eastern side of the point on South Africa where (supposedly) the Atlantic meets the Indian. Now for why I've lost total track of time.. The Bungee jump. There's a brief moment at the instant ... read more

Feb 6-9 2006, Kruger National Park I did a four day safari with Livingstone Trails at the Kruger National Park, South Africa's largest. On our way to the park, we saw the Blyde River Canyon, which was beautifull. Inside the park, we met a pride of lions. They were walking on the road "escorting" our vehicle. The next day, we saw an elephant bull ahead us on the road. He was less friendly, it some point it seemed like he is going to charge us, but then he stopped. Neverthless, he didn't allow us to pass by him on the road, and we had to take a detour. Later in the day, we saw a group of female elephants and their young grazing by the road. They seemed friendlier, or at least did not pay any ... read more

We did a morning game drive this day. We got to see two more Big 5, including rhinos and buffalo. The only Big 5 that we did not get to see was the elephant. Kind of disappointing! In the afternoon, we went to NLP airport for our flight to JNB. We were only going to pass through JNB on our way to Cape Town. The flight was an Airlink airlines Dornier 228. The crew let me sit up in the first row and let me listen in on ATC. How cool! They had told me that an American Eagle flight had crashed in Indiana and later I would find out that it was the ATR plane in Roselawn. How sad to hear..... Once at JNB, we stood by for the Comair flight to CPT. Full! Next ... read more

I went to live in Middelburg, TVL at the age of 7, did my schooling in Middelburg Primary then went to Witbank high School where I finished Matrice in 1979 and went to Witbank College for my Secretarial Course. Later I worked for BTR Sarmcol which later became VMS Mining Supplies, from there I went to work for Witbank Personnel just for 1 year and before I moved to Portugal. I can say without any doubt that those were truely the best years of my life:)... read more