Addo Elephant Park

Visited the Addo Elephant Park today for another Safari animal sighting ride. The day started out a little cold, rainy and windy but ended up having a really nice afternoon. We got to see a few new animals while on this excursion.

First was the Hartebeest which is a grassland antelope.

                                           We saw Sable which have gotten to be fairly rare.

Birds we saw included the Cape Weaver, Boken, and Egyptian Geese.

We saw many of the now old familiar ones like Kudu, Zebra, Cape Buffalo and Wart Hogs.

Some in the group kept asking me to step back a little farther. Hmmmmm!

Then as we were leaving the park kind of disappointed we hadn't seen the elephants, there they were. It was so neat to sit and watch them as they rolled in the mud, drank and sprayed water, ran across the field, and jostle each other around flapping their ears.

We got back to town in time to walk along the beach. I have now put my feet in the Indian Ocean!

I liked the uniques sea wall that ran along the beach.

                                 There were some surfers taking advantage of the big waves.