Daily Animal Visits

Trish and I are having such a wonderful time camping here at Lion Country.  First of all we are actually RESTING for the first time since we got married nearly a year ago.  Secondly, we get to drive through Lion Country Safari each day and are realizing that through the repeat visits we are really getting to know the animals and observe their habits.

Today we happened to enter the park just as the giant tortoises were being fed. They came walking right up to the park worker knowing that a treat was in store.  The feeder gave them bananas by hand and then gave them what I am guessing must be something like alfalfa pellets.  It was great to watch them interact with the Lion Country personnel.

The tortoises being hand fed bananas.

The Park has a huge herd of Kudus.  They wander around the very large natural habitat grasslands with several other ungulate antelope species.  The horns on the male kudus are spectacular.

An impressive male Kudu.

We really enjoy watching the white rhinos each day.  They always are wandering in pairs and we want to know more about their social habits.  Today we saw thirteen, including the new baby who is still with his mother.

Rhinos everywhere!

We are realizing that one trip through the Safari would have taught us very little compared to our daily trips.  This is turning out to be much more fun than we ever imagined.