We all woke with cheesy faces, because the rabbit had arrived, Bushpig’s presents were out and we were going to Biyamiti.
The “rabbit” had got drilled in the sun, so many of the eggs were flat like pancakes, which caused major confusion for Bushpig and Albert, but it still tasted like chocolate, so they soon got over it.
The present opening was taking longer than expected, so I was starting to pace, but kept my mouth shut as it was Bushpig’s day and she was super stoked with her new binoculars which she had been waiting for.
The plan today was to head up to Skukuza and then down the H3 to Afsaal for Bushpig’s favourite chow, pancakes, before going on to Biyamiti. I would normally have ducked across the S21, which has developed into a road that I love, but it was still closed.
We still managed to pack the car and get out of camp at around 6am, which surprised me as I had written off the early morning in my mind.
The first unusual sighting for the morning was a blind snake in the road
The rest of the H4-1 produced only the normal gang, so we decided to duck past the S83 loop to see if the lions from yesterday were still around and they were, although sleeping, so not much excitement, but we still stopped for a few minutes on the causeway to take some pics.
A few minutes later I spotted another yellow ribbon and recognised the occupants. It was Wendy and Heksie, but after my last yellow ribbon sour crowd meeting I wasn’t sure what to do. They then decided to drive slowly forward on the little causeway and pass right next to my window and I couldn’t help myself “Howzit Heksie and Wendy”
Heksie seemed confused initially and wanted to know where my yellow ribbon was, but I just pointed at the green ribbon on the Cow’s mirror and did that explanation. They both seemed really cool and we are at Lower Sabie together for the same 3 nights in July, so hopefully can chat more then.
The rest of the drive to Skukuza didn’t produce much, but just before Skukuza Hawkeyes started chirping in the back “Do you want to go to Talamati tonight”, which confused me big time “LO wants to know, I have a message on my phone”
Poplap and Theuns were leaving a day early and their unit for which they had already paid was a 6 sleeper and they were offering it to us for the night, which was majorly kind of them.
We were moving up to Talamati the next day anyway, so this would mean less moving, so we were keen.
A few calls to Poplap, as we kept getting cut off, and things were set up.
We had to pull a small con on Bushpig, because she would miss out on her Afsaal pancakes, but she soon was in agreement.
There was just one thing on the sighting board in front of me that was tempting, wild dogs had been seen in almost the same place for 2 days, so I suggested “Let’s take a drive to the H1-1/H3 intersection and then head back towards the H12 Bridge and up to Talamati?” All agreed and we were off.
Just past De Laporte’s we found them.
They were running in and out of our field of vision for about 15 minutes and it was a mission to snap a pic each time as they would suddenly appear. We counted about 11 of them in that time, but may have counted the same dog twice.
I thought initially that they were just playing, but the Cow had another theory.
Suddenly the Cow switched to Afrikaans “Weet jy wat hulle probeer doen”, which took me about as long to write as it took to understand and then the penny dropped, but I couldn’t get a clear shot for a pic.
Calmly the Cow continued with the video camera “Hy het haar”, which got me excited “Well I don’t have her, I can’t get a pic!!”
To be continued
- can't wait for the next episode, I know what's coming 
