The Chance of a Lifetime...

Canopy tops and elephants

This morning we got up early-ish but late compared to safari... 7.30 today. Dave Laura and I jumped on Sara b/c its her B'Day today- she's old now, 24! Haha. She didn't get out of bed since only mum Laura Dave and I were going to the tree top canopy slide thing...I can't think what its called...I drove us about 20mins east to the office of this thing- stone river adventurest (I think...too tired tonight)we put on harnesses and then got driven to the Tsitsikamma (try saying that drunk) Indigenous Forest where we got hooked up to wires and we flew through the canopy...it was fun, not quite as fun/cool as I thought it was going to be, but it was good. We drove back to the hotel, ate lunch and sat by the pool for about an hour. Then we went to an elephant sanctuary, we learned a lot of cool facts- all of the elephants there have been rescued, 1 of them was a house pet, no joke!! Who does that?! A couple of them were caught wreaking havoc in a village in Kruger, and I can't remember the others' stories... We were shown the grounds and then introduced to 3 of the 6 elephants. 3 of us went over to them with their handlers and we said hi and pet them hahaha I pet an elephant. Then they told uys to stand in front of them with our hand behind us and fingers turned up, the elephants placed the end of their trunks are our fingers!! It was a really strange feeling when they breathed in/out, super cool!! We walked for a while like this, then we stopped and learned the stories of the elephants and they showed us some tricks...nothing crazy. Then they had the elephants open their mouths, they're crazy cool!! They have 4 huge molar-type teeth and they get 5 sets of these over their lifetime, when 1 falls out it is replace from the back and they're all pushed forward, kind of like an escalator...super cool...I have a picture, its crazy!! After this we walked them around a little more, then we got to ride them...this was kind of crazy but they're kind of comfortable ha, although if you're going to ride an elephant then I reccomend wearing long pants b/c their hair is very rough! The whole trip was very interesting although kind of sad after seeing the elephants in Kruger in the wild. But it was good. We came back and since we were pretty gross we figured we'd take out the quads again, the 1 Sara and I took yesterday wouldn't start so only Laura and Dave went out. Sara and I hung out for a while, then I took a shower for an hour! Ha j/k but it was long, and great! After hanging out with elephants you're pretty gross! Thennnn we got ready and went to dinner! The food was yummy again but none of us really ate much, we're all pretty tired. Another early night... Tomorrow we're moving on to Capetown...
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posted by Kirby @ 1:04 PM