La Pension Guest House
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The last............. weekend :"(
Day 1 - Woke after a little lay in at 9am. Got ready and fed the tiger cubbies at 11.30am. We then went into the ranch for lunch and to say hello. The afternoon was spent at Tammys stunning flat, drinking coffee and baileys on her porch before deciding to go and watch the SA v ENG rugby at Bronco's :) Of course this was over a few drinks and some pizza. Me and luc then went to meet Adi and Meno to go to a car show. Was good, got to see a few live music acts, we ...
Farewell Braii
Thursday - We made bllod lollies first thing with the blood that eugene saved us from his last kill. We then helped clean lemur falls before relocating the Servals into Mickey and Mistys old enclosure. To kill the last 15 mins b4 tea time we went to see our favourite boy Bambam. The next task was a mamouth one. We grabbed our gum boots and headed to lemur island where we spent the next 2 and half hours catching the tens of Catfish before the moat could be ...
Meerkat Time
A drive day via Bredasdorp where we go via the quaint Shipwreck museum & the 5rand shop and up to Swellendam and on to the Garden Route proper via Tradouws Paaa & Barrydale. Picnic stop with Dassies on the pass and ice cream at Ladismith.
This is our 'posh' night so we arrive at the 4* guest house with our 4 poster, large bath & 2(?) showers. In true ...
Dreams came true today.........
... who took us into the enclosures with two lots of cheetahs. OMG they are sooo amazing and this time we got to spend a hour touching and interacting with them. We then headed over to the lemur enclosure and had some time with time and they were v sweet too.Its crazy to think that this will be our life for the next 2 possible 3 weeks :) eeeekkk. We then headed back to the house to settle in and unpack.We then headed We found out today that the cheetahs cubs we ...
What's gotten into me?
... fun part of the day was getting to play with the tiger cubs. I don’t know what’s gotten into me, but I just love interacting with these types of animals these days. I really want to see a panther, but I don’t think they have them down this far in Africa.
After leaving the ranch, the sun was well into setting. We set off for Mossel Bay, but unfortunately missed a turn in the dark, and ended up 3 hours away ...