Here it is, finally, a catch up on what we have been up to these past 4 weeks.
AFRICA - the Land, the Animals, the People - we fell in love with every aspect of this incredible little pocket of the world.
Very Special Friendships were made - HUGE shout outs to Rowan Moon (our amazing Acacia Tour Guide/Driver/Chef who made our trip to
Africa a truly special one and whom we now consider family).
We still find ourselves looking out the window with our ‘Kruger’ eyes trying to spot that elusive leopard Rowan.
Hope you saw one on your next trip.
‘Good Morning Acacia, Good Morning Sheers Family’
‘Good Morning Rowan’ . . . our 5.30am wake up call
More shout outs to our Acacia family – Ebony and Shaun (an Aussie gal and her Canadian man) who are making their way back to Canada to live via many wonderful places including Africa and Morocco, Jan (a wonderful guy from Germany) who when we left him was heading back down to Cape Town and then reluctantly on to home, and Colette ( a gal from near Te Kuiti in NZ now living in London) who joined our tour 1/2way through after having done a big overland up around Kenya etc.
The girls adopted Colette as their camping buddy/nanny.
Joel (the ever quiet man in the corner watching and listening and soaking everything up like a sponge) an Indian American who is lucky enough to travel to a different corner of the world every year and Frank (from
Brisbane) who coped amazingly well with all of us and our loud chatting and music.
Tears were shed by the girls after saying goodbye to you all. If you get a chance to read this we hope you’re all having a blast wherever you may be. We had once in a lifetime experiences with you guys and made memories we will never forget.
For everyone else out there - it would take a year of Sundays to write everything we did in
Africa so instead here are some of the highlights via the many photos we took.
Suffice it to say – if anyone ever has the chance to visit any part of
Africa don’t hesitate - just go!
You will never regret it and like us you will want to return again . . .
You can also go to youtube and check out our run in with an angry Mama Elephant when we got too close to her baby -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAr-JfmTjdc (thanks to Ebony who filmed the whole thing)
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| The Sheers Family Aloft Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Table Mountain from Lagoon Beach where we stayed |
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| The incredible Cape Town Skies |
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| A Long Way From Home |
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| The Three Rondavels, Blyde River Canyon |
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| From Left Shaun, Ebony, Joel, Jan, Glenn, Taashi and Tilly |
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| A Salt Pan outside of Maun in Botswana |
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| The Okovanga Delta from the Helicopter |
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| A Battelier |
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| Kicking up your heels and some dust at the Karma Rhino Sanctuary |
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| One of the many ways to get around in Africa |
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| Toilet rolls for elephants! |
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| African sunset through an Acacia Tree |
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| Broken down on the road to Botswana |
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| Brown Chested Snake Eagle |
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| BT at the Delta - one of our polers and our 5 hour hike Tour Guide |
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| Elephant footprints in the sand outside our cabin at Elephant Sands Botswana |
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| Everything including the kitchen sink! |
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| Giraffe Crossing |
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| Poling through the Delta from Tilly's perspective |
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| Heading to our camp site in the Delta by Mokoro |
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| Hiding behind Mum in Kruger |
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| Impala taking a stroll down one of the roads in Kruger |
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| Kruger National Park |
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| One month old Elephant and Mum in Kruger |
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| Lion spotted by the 'Best Lion Spotter ever' aka Mum |
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| One of the 8 lions playing near the beach in Chobe National Park |
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| Postcard pose at a water tank in Kruger |
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| Rowan and the girls on the edge of the Kalahari Desert |
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| Our Guide/Chef/Bush Mechanic Rowan |
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| Running from lions - the Banded Mongoose |
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| Sunset over Chobe |
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| Swimming in the Hippo Pool at the Delta |
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| Taashi on Mary |
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| Taashi ready to take to the air over the Delta |
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| The girls new Jo'burg friends Alexia, Arnica, Aiden and little Rascal |
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| The Waters and Reeds of the Delta |
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| The only kill we saw in Africa |
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| On the road out of Jo'burg |
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| The Sheers Family Executive Tent - which was just our two tents pushed together |
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| A pretty female Kudu |
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| The Mighty Victoria Falls - Mosi o Tunya or The Smoke that Thunders |
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| The Zambia/Botswana Border |
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| Walking the Savannahs of Kruger |
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| Tilly on Ta Ta |
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| Having a laugh on the way home from school somewhere near the Kalahari Desert |
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| A midday shower care of the Victoria Falls, Zambia |
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| A Little Bit of the Vic Falls |
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| Walking home from School, Zambia |
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| We love camping in Africa! |
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| Two Cheetah we came across resting under the shade of a tree in Kruger |
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| Mum and 1 mth old Bub at the Government Protected Karma Wildlife Sanctuary |
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| A Very Cheeky Yellow Billed Hornbill aka the Banana Bird |
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| Up Close and Personal with the Wildlife of Africa |
