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Skukuza Arrival - June 10
After checking into our cabins, we went to the camp
store for beer, water & chips and then took a nap. I called home to see how the pay
phone worked. We went touring on a small loop in the car, and Tom set the record by
returning through the rest camp gate at 5:28, with two minutes to spare. That afternoon we
saw lots of deer-like creatures we later determined were most probably Impala. We also saw
a couple of giraffe. Tom drove the first night, so I got to look and take these
snapshots. We drove west out of Skukuza, stopped at a bird hide off H11, then turned south
on S65 and crossed the N’waswitshaka river, then back east and north on H1-1 back to
Skukuza. We saw lots of impala, zebra, giraffe and a couple of Chacma Baboons.
After we got back in the camp, we sat on the porch of my cabin and drank some beer, ate some chips, and then went to dinner at the Selati train station. The regular restaurant was closed due to the damage caused by flooding in the spring. There were several cabins closest to the river that were also destroyed and being re-built. We drank our nightcap on the porch, after watching the end of a movie being shown in the amphitheater. I woke at 3 and was cold & stuffed up. So I put on my knit hat and an extra blanket and went back to sleep. Tom woke me up at 8 and I felt great and well rested. This evening I decided I was pretty ignorant. I had been waited on by indigenous and indigent, but happy, people, who spoke English, Afrikaans and Zulu. They were so more educated than me. 5 Photos archived 13 April 2002. |
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