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The Addo Elephant Park is about an hour's drive from Port Elizabeth, and is well-known for its elephants.Watching lots of Elephants
Three generations together. Arno is holding Jaco (in red); Arno's
dad, also Arno, is on the left, his mom Letitia in the middle and Theo
in front. Custom among Afrikaans families is that boys will be given family
names. Arno is the third of three boys, so he has his father's names. Jaco
is our first-born, so according to custom, he had to receive his paternal
grandfather's names. We just stopped more confusion by calling him "Jaco"
instead of another Arno! Theo has a combination of names from the Ziehl
side of the family.
We took the grandparent's caravan (trailer / mobile home) to stay in
for the weekend. When we were at Addo in 1991, there were comfortable bungalo
accommodation, but also parks for camping.
While breaking camp on the Sunday, we heard this tremendous crying
- Jaco fell with his mouth on a piece of wire and it went right through
his upper lip. It was bleeding freely. We put a plaster on it, and by the
time we were back in Port Elizabeth, it was almost completely closed and
not bleeding any more. I would say that made the trip even more memorable!
Who's got right of way then?
Dung beetles in the park are almost more important than people! There
are also other animals to be seen, like the red Hartbees.
Different sizes of elephants at the park. This park is very
well looked after, and a firm favourite with tourists.
We saw literally hundreds of elephants that day.
Oh, but we were young .... Jaco is on the left and Theo on the
right. As you can see, the area is very dry. When driving around at the
park (or anywhere in the South African Karoo for that matter) be sure to
take along water or something else to drink. The Karoo is notorious for
its heat, the long stretches of road without any towns or settlements,
and the wide blue bowl of the sky always seeming to stretch for miles without
end.
If you didn't listen to the sound of an African elephant
on the previous page, here it is again. Click!
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