Packed day!!

I have managed to find a bit of time to write a quick post before we head off! And what a packed day we have had today!

Firts thing, we went to the Elephant Sanctury where they have 5 elephants which they saved from being culled. These are being trained to do various tricks and skills for the tourists but ultimately, to be used for elephant safaris in the reserve. We all had a ride on them too!

Then we went into the reserve to do a game capture. We set up 3 lines of nets and the ranger tried to herd some game into the nets - but they weren't playing ball today and all we got was a very old wildebeast! The idea is to jump on the game and hold it down when it is in the nets! We will try again next week and hopefully we'll be more lucky!

After our morning break, we went into the tiger enclosure WITH THE TIGERS to clear some cut grass - it was FANTASTIC! The rangers kept the tigers at bay but we got pretty close to them! Then we took some of the cut grass to Ben the tiger cub and his lion cub companions and played with them before going to see some older lion cubs in another enclosure. We went in with these ones too and they were lovely! There are 2 adult lions, one male and one female, in the opposite enclosure but they really don't like the rangers so they don't go in with them very often and we certainly won't!!

So that's just about been our day! I am packed and ready to go to Jeffrey's Bay for the weekend and I'll post some more photos up early next week!