One day we saw vultures flying above and Ocean and Ishmael left us in the truck to go investigate. They came back and told us that a giraffe had died. We heard birds give warning signs to other animals. We saw cheetahs nervously trying to avoid other predators. We also saw the largest spiders that you can imagine. I think Whitney would also admit that the scariest thing we encountered were the spiders. We had never seen such HUGE spiders and giant webs.
Ishmael sat in the front of the jeep quiet and patient. Do you France Email List know what a tracker does? He looks at the ground and looks for the animal tracks, and he was absolutely a master! He was able to find us those cheetahs and lions just by following tracks and markings that nobody else would ever notice. Ishmael and Ocean did not go to school for this, they learned it by living and seeing, mostly from their youth. I was so very impressed. Our days consisted of morning safari rides from 5am-9am, breakfast, taking a nap and sitting at the pool, a wonderful lunch at 1pm, more relaxing, an afternoon safari ride from 4pm-8pm and then dinner.
The meals were fantastic with local food that was so fresh and delicious. Usually we ate dinner in an open-air setting where the food was cooked up on the barbeque right next to us and we could observe the millions of stars above as we ate. [Earl: The food at Thornybush was quite unreal, with every meal outshining the one before. Perhaps this was partly due to the picture-perfect settings of the dining areas but the quality and presentation of the food definitely had something to do with it as well.