Highgrove House Hazyview
P.O. Box 46 Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Doorstep to Kruger
... the last I'd see of a place like that anyway, so we shouted my sister and her husband. With the sun disappearing, I decided to take a stroll around the grounds. Saw some anti-climactic hippo ears at the "hippo pond", but then nearly fell over a croc at the river...crikey!!
We cooked a bbq on the deck then hit the hay. We'd be up before the sun tomorrow to go to ...
Days 220-221: The scariest night of our lives
... scared to sleep in our mutilated tent, so we splashed the cash to stay in a holiday cottage with locked doors and windows. We managed to get a fitful sleep, exhaustion helping us here, but we were left wondering exactly why we had the bad luck to be a victim of crime twice in a week and how we escaped that situation so lightly.
Definitely the scariest moments of either of our lives, but we were determined not to let this latest setback spoil the trip.
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The Big Five!
... It is so special to be able to share this incredible experience with Rhonda, Bill and the kids. Emily and Grant get along swimmingly and little Luke is hysterical, he really keeps us in stitches at times and is doing great, especially for a 10-year old boy. This just couldn't be a better experience for all of us; top shelf accommodations, divine food, the best tracker and ranger (both with terrific senses of humor!), libations galore, African scenery ...
A full day in the bush
... times, but always shows back up. He said once when they came to the gate, they thought Frank was gone because he was nowhere in sight. So Sylvester jumped down to open the gate. He was just about to raise the gate when Frank showed up. Such drama, Alan said, over touching his gate. Alan says that, if Frank had been at the Polish border, the Nazis would have never gotten in.
We had breakfast out on the deck under the trees, overlooking dry river bed that runs ...
Close encounters!
... a slightly upsetting way as encountered a poor male lion who had been injured in a fight with other lions and as such was unable to hunt and was relying on scavenging from the hunts of leopards or the female lions led prides. We were told he would only make it a week without food and he looked so skinny and behaved in a sorry state however we were advised that this happens all the time and is a natural and inevitable part of
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