Lions!

As I mentioned before, we went on Safari for the second half of the trip to the Ngala private game park right next to kruger national park. The middle of the days get pretty hot even though its still spring there, so everyone wakes up at 4:30 am to go on a morning drive, hang by the pool mid day, and then go out again on an evening drive. Before the last evening drive our goal was to see lions, since the previous lion sighting had been pretty far away and we needed a better one. Luckily while we were out on the drive, another ranger went over the intercom evidently to say that lion tracks had been found and they had located a male and a female in the river bed. We headed over there, and found the lions just as the sun was going down. The lady lion stayed a little farther away so we didn't get any great photos of her, but the male just sat there with us


It became quite dark, and we decided to head back to the lodge for dinner. We wound our way almost out of the reeds , and were about to go through the last clump only about 3 or 4 yards away from the danger when....vroom, vroom....the tires were spinning but we weren't moving. We were beached.

This was behind us

and he was hungry

We were told at the start of the week never to leave the car around the cats. but clearly someone needed to get out. The ranger and tracker got out and tried to dig us out. That didnt work. Another land rover drove by and tried nudging us out. That didnt work.

Finally another ranger car came out with rope, but we didnt budge. Slowly we had to leave our safe vehicle and walk to the empty one so they could jack up our car and get it out.

We were finally free!