Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The last of the bush and on to the Cape of Good Hope

 Note the birds eating the ticks on the giraffe.
 The kudu was just roaming around the lodge when we left.
 Our last sunrise over the Drakensburg Mountains.
 Leopard - close up.  The most elusive of the big five.
 Looking over the olive estate.
 Vaughn and I learn about olive oil "tasting".
 Entering the olive estate -- 46,000 trees.
 Yolanda at the home of one of their health care patients.
 The tablecloth over Table Mountain.
 The prison at Robben Island - where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 of the 27 years.
 Mandela's cell.
 The best olives in Africa! Certainly best selling.
 Same last sunset. I just got as confused as I did the other day when I put two rhinos on the page...
 A resident of Robbens Island.
  A hyena in the grasses at the preserve.
 One of the darling children that Yolanda serves in Mitchell Plains.
 The back side of Cape of Good Hope.
 Twenty-nine years, and still loving it!  Our anniversary spent there...
The shacks that are in Mitchell Plains.

I had downloaded about 20 pictures -- and they went away -- so I got lazy and just quickly put these up because we leave at 5 am tomorrow for St. Petersburg, Russia.

Next blog will be on the upcoming trip...meantime, Tarjua and her daughter Marjuska are doing a great job of entertaining us.

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