The Southern Tip
So right now my sister is vacationing in South Africa. Here in LA recently the weather’s been very cold for the region. 50 degrees during the day, 25-30 at night. Over in South Africa, where they’re currently experiencing summer, it’s 85 degrees, sunny and humid. Must be nice.
My sister wrote last night with a story I thought was pretty cool, so here I am sharing it with everyone.
Crazy! Wish I was there.We were driving in the bush in an open 13 seater land rover and we spotted 4 or 5 elephants. 2 were just babies. Our driver decided to get a closer look so he went around the other side of them where there was only one way in and one way out. He turned off the engine as they always do as to not scare the animals. When we were getting ready to move on the jeep wouldn’t start. He couldn’t get the imobilizer to shut off and the car began to honk (or hoot as they say here). So every time he tried to turn over the engine the jeep would hoot 4 times. The baby elephants got spooked and ran behind the mothers. One of the mothers looked at us and it was quite nerve racking. The guide said as long as the elephants kept eating it would be ok. She continued to keep an eye on us. They were not even 30 feet away. The ranger had to call another ranger to have him push our jeep to a safer area. We just had to remain still. Finally after some work the other jeep was able to move us and he got the jeep running. Our ranger was shaking he was so nervous. We got a bit of it on video so hopefully I can show you it. He said if the bull was there he probably
would have charged us. Nice huh?
