Cape Town (July 5-8)

Table Mountain - 6 July 2010

Boy oh boy! we all match in our spanky ESPN vests!


Nic met a canine Brazil supporter on a rock :


Jed gets behind the camera:





Pre-game neatness (and quiet) at NED-URU semis match
(VIP section ... thanks again Jed!!!!) :

Headphones dampen the vuvuzelas... And we got to keep the blankets! :

Cape Point Light House - 7 July :

Penguins at Boulder Beach :

Baboons on the side of the road... I was trying to get a photo of them opening a car door... but those smart baboons must have been somewhere else ... these were just picking bugs off each other! 

8 July: 

Darb goes to tour Robben Island (Mandela's prison) ... 

while I go to lunch with Tommy Gonzales :

Nic bouncing on the trampoline of Tommy's new 90' cat in Elliott Basin :

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Morukuru - movies

Young lions wrestling in tree :

Elephant digging for roots :

Lunch served by the water hole :



Giraffe Walking :
note that they move both legs on the same side while walking...



Evening game drive :
We set out around 3:30 or 4... sun sets by 5:15 or so, Tom brings out the lamp, and sweeps side to side. We looked for leopards, never found them ... but at least we saw the lions!



Butterfly hunters (Anthony and Nicole) :

On our way back from Morukuru to Johannesburg... 

Standard police checkpoint :

More from Morukuru (July 1-4)

NOTE : Just catching up on photos from past days
(I didn't feel much like blogging...  :(


The Lodge ... living room :

Reviewing the day's pictures with Amy, Anthony & Jabu:

Dining Room (yes, it seats 10...) :

Asion, our OUTSTANDING chef... prepared us 4 course meals... 3x a day!

(in a kitchen I want to own at home!)

One of the 3 bedrooms (all king sized beds) :

 

with 3 bathrooms to match!

And outdoors ... towards the river, breakfast on the deck :

A quick swim before lunch :

down by the river :

African BBQ out back in the boma :

Joined by our hosts (and guide) Amy & Anthony :

Sorry, Darb .... I didn't get a picture of the "fire pit" ... 

July 5 - More Travel... Cape Town

Arrived Cape Town...
Staying at the Taj downtown.
Long day of travel - but will start uploading back-logged photos tomorrow!

July 4 - Travel Day

No one told me you don't get to sleep on a safari!

Up at 6:00am for tea and a muffin, out the door in the dark at 6:30am ...
drive until 9am looking at majestic African wildlife,
breakfast at 9:30 or so...
relax (swim, read, wish I could sleep) until lunch at 1 or 2,
out at 3:30 for evening game drive, back at 7 (in the dark),
dinner 7:30-9:30 (they are multi-course, gourmet meals - best food I have EVER eaten!!)
download cameras, charge everything, try to write in blog, upload photos ...
in bed by midnight ... try to sleep...
Repeat for 3 days...

I would do it again in a heart beat!

July 4 was a low key afair : a BBQ in the hotel lobby :(

Off tomorrow for Cape Town -
Semi Finals Netherlands v. Uruguay on the 6th.

(scroll down for more safari photos of Lions...
I will upload the rest when I have slept more!)