OK, as usual I am running out of titles but there is some relevance and it’s not the baked beans!
We woke up naturally a little earlier this morning; early nights and the fact that finally my cough/cold has pretty well cleared up, played apart in this rare event.
After breakfast we headed out to the other end of town to go horse back riding! It’s been about 25 years since we last rode a horse. We spent an hour wandering around the fringes of the reserve in a group of 6 plus 2 guides. At one stage one of the guides asked if any one would like to increase their speed from a walk. It seems I was the only one who may have mumbled yes. Anyway the two of us headed out on a second trail for a while. Suffice it to say after that, there will definitely be no more children in our future.
We returned to the B&B to recover, and to have a swim in the pool. Around lunch time we headed out with a picnic lunch (I have grown quite partial to Spars chicken curry pies!) to drive up the western estuary, yesterday we did the east side.
Our greatest new animal of the day was the dung beetle. As their name suggests they work with dung, this particular species rolls the dung into a ball, which can be up to 50 times their own body weight. This ball then serves as a store of food and somewhere to incubate their eggs. This beetle flies and reminds of a small hand held drone in size, sound and the way it manoeuvers!
Further along the estuary we saw the “normal” crop of animals.
Tried to identify this guy but couldn’t, anyone recognise it?
There was also a small aerial board walk we could go along, ingenious how they routed it through a tree.
This is probably our last viewing of the large animals as we head back to Jo’burg tomorrow morning.
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