Month: August 2016

Wow! What a day! Even our guides and tracker were amazed at what we got to witness today. We headed out early to the east boundary of Londolozi to track a cheetah that had been spotted. Within a half and hour we found him! Cheetahs are pretty rare to spot, so we spent about an […]

Today was terrific. I can’t begin to remember and write down everything we’ve seen and experienced, although I’m trying to do so. Out guides and trackers are extremely knowledgeable and besides spotting and pointing out animals, birds and plants, they provide a fabulous narrative for us on our drives. I wanted to give you an […]

We are just so sad for Louisiana right now. It is so hard not being home to help and so weird to be this far away with everything happening. Thanks to everyone keeping us up to date on everything going on. True to their word, we were woken up at 5:40 this morning with coffee […]

We left Stellenbosch about 7:30 this morning to give us plenty of time to get to the Cape Town airport and return the rental car before our flight. When we left to was raining and about 55 degrees. When we landed at Skukuza it was clear blue skies and about 75! The ride to Londolozi […]

It was another dreary day today. We were suppose to have driven to the coast today and gone whale watching, but due to the weather and the guys not feeling well, we changed our plans.   We drove north to the Fairview Wine Estates. They are known for their wines and sheep’s milk cheese. They […]

We woke up to winter in South Africa. It pretty much drizzled all day and never got above about 55 degrees. The weather wasn’t actually our problem today – Mark and Tom woke up with colds. Both are running fever and coughing like crazy, but they were troopers.  We met our tour guide, Simone, at […]

Today was another great day! We woke up to another day of sunshine, which we hear is rare to have day after day in winter. It actually got up to 80 degrees by the afternoon. We got our rental car yesterday afternoon, so we left the hotel early for our “ bucket list” adventure of […]

We got up early this morning to drive the Cape Peninsula. We had beautiful, warm weather again today! Everyone keeps telling me that this is very unusual for winter. We drove south on the east coast of the peninsula through quaint little beach towns, Muizenburg, St. James, Fish Hoek, Simon’s Town and then to Boulders Beach, […]

Monday, August 8th No one had to rock any of us to sleep last night. We all crashed when we got back from dinner and slept great. Sunday morning we all took a Nuvagil (which is used for shift workers to stay awake when they have to work night shifts). It “wakes” you up without […]

Sunday, August 7th Wow! What a day. We woke up to an absolutely beautiful morning. We all took something to sleep and woke up to our doorbells ringing with room service about 8. We figured we’d be pretty tired, so didn’t make any set plans for the day. The concierge at the hotel suggested we […]