Braai at Greg's

Although it seems like old news by now, last weekend all the volunteers were fortunate enough to be invited to Greg's house for a Braai. He does this about once a year, and I'm so glad it happened while I was here!

Greg lives on a "wildlife estate" about an hour away from Daktari (although actually geographically very close, the roads aren't great and you have to go in circles around fences etc.). This means that driving to his house you can see all sorts of animals, and then once you are on his property it's possible to see even more. When we first arrived, Greg took us on a walk down to the river near his house:

We walked along the river for a while:

Then we turned and walked up an empty riverbed:

The bottom of the riverbed was covered with all these really cool smooth rocks:

After we made it back to Greg's house we swam in his pool, read books, and hung out for a few hours. then we cooked delicious boerewors and lots of snacks: 

Next, Greg took us on a drive in his land rover to a different part of the river where the hippos stay. They were just waking up for the evening, and we stayed for about half an hour watching seven hippos swim around! 

Just as the sun began to set we headed back to Daktari, just in time to start another full week.

Tomorrow I'm off to Bloemfontein for a week, to help lead a training for the parents and teachers in the creches where I visited before. It should be very interesting! They still don't have internet at MUCPP so I will be off the grid for a while, but I'll try to write a post or two for when I get internet back.