game park and weather window

Our daytrip to the Imfolozi and Hluhluwe Game Reserve was great. Getting up at 3 am and then driving only an our to the park entrance to get into the gate at 5 am at dawn. The animals are more active in the early morning hours and the late afternoon. We picked a cloudy day, what is also good, because we in the car and the animals are more fit. In the Park are living the BIG FIVE, the five most dangerous animals, what means they have the lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and black rhinoceros.
We were happy to see 3 of the big fives (we missed only the elephant and the leopard) and around 20 other kinds of animals like the hyaena, warthog, zebras, giraffes, waterbuck.
The amazing part is, that you get very very closed to the animals. Some are walking on or beside the little gravel roads and you get to them as closed as 5-10 m. Thats fine with the zebras and giraffes, but gets a bit exciting with the buffalo or rhinos.....
Back in Richards Bay we are waiting now for a good weather window to get down to Durban or East London.
The Southerly Blaster, what turns the sea into a boiling kettle , are blasting threw in a very short frequency, so tomorrow we only have 24h time to get to the next save harbour. I do not know if we will start, but the plan is to leave tonight at 3 am.

Axel

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