Imfolozi Browns July 2017
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 12:22 pm
Hey Guys
This is just a quickie TT from a weekend trip up to Imfolozi.
I wanted to book the weekend of the Cow’s birthday, but Ezemvelo has introduced some holiday penalty story which means one pays nearly 70% more during school holidays, so instead I booked for the weekend of the 21st & 22nd of July.
I have also had some hectic deadlines at work, so told the boss I was taking Friday and Saturday off which caused a stir and some pelicans at work, but my cylinder head would have popped without the “time out”.
We woke at around 5am on the morning of the 21st, but the weather was faulty so we didn’t rush too much and arrived at Nyalazi gate at around 9:30am.
We could only book in much later in the day, so the plan was to cruise around slowly before choosing a picnic site to braai lunch at.
All the normal locals were out to great us on the way to Mpila camp.
We stopped at Mpila camp for a loo break and spotted that we had scored tent number 24 which is the 2nd 4 sleeper unit and a more secluded unit on the camp perimeter “fence”, which is just a single strand of wire, so my teeth were hanging out for the evening.
It was now an awkward time as it was a little too early to start the lunchtime braai, so we continued on towards viewpoint 17 and then on towards 20 which produced a lone male lion parking off. We couldn’t believe that we were the only car and could easily have missed him.
I switched off and we got comfortable, but as normal I soon got itchy feet, so started to try different spots to see if we could get a different angle on the lion, which as per routine got the Cow chirping, however my backwards and then forwards seemed to interest the lion or irritate him, I’m not sure which one and he started towards us, crossed the road in front of us and moved on into the bush.
This is just a quickie TT from a weekend trip up to Imfolozi.
I wanted to book the weekend of the Cow’s birthday, but Ezemvelo has introduced some holiday penalty story which means one pays nearly 70% more during school holidays, so instead I booked for the weekend of the 21st & 22nd of July.
I have also had some hectic deadlines at work, so told the boss I was taking Friday and Saturday off which caused a stir and some pelicans at work, but my cylinder head would have popped without the “time out”.
We woke at around 5am on the morning of the 21st, but the weather was faulty so we didn’t rush too much and arrived at Nyalazi gate at around 9:30am.
We could only book in much later in the day, so the plan was to cruise around slowly before choosing a picnic site to braai lunch at.
All the normal locals were out to great us on the way to Mpila camp.
We stopped at Mpila camp for a loo break and spotted that we had scored tent number 24 which is the 2nd 4 sleeper unit and a more secluded unit on the camp perimeter “fence”, which is just a single strand of wire, so my teeth were hanging out for the evening.
It was now an awkward time as it was a little too early to start the lunchtime braai, so we continued on towards viewpoint 17 and then on towards 20 which produced a lone male lion parking off. We couldn’t believe that we were the only car and could easily have missed him.
I switched off and we got comfortable, but as normal I soon got itchy feet, so started to try different spots to see if we could get a different angle on the lion, which as per routine got the Cow chirping, however my backwards and then forwards seemed to interest the lion or irritate him, I’m not sure which one and he started towards us, crossed the road in front of us and moved on into the bush.