Day 9 - The mini "Car Safari"

After relaxing all the day before, the rest of us were ready to get out and do something. But since it had been raining and was still a little misty, we couldn't really do too much outside. So Grandpa and Ann suggested we go up the road to Mlilwane, a smaller game park, and drive around in our car for a couple of hours to see if we could see anything different there than we saw at Mkhaya. Several of the animals we saw were the same, but we did actually get to see a few different animals that we hadn't seen on the previous safari. For instance, we didn't see warthogs at Mlilwane like we had seen at Mkhaya, but we saw bush pigs instead. Here are some pictures to show the difference. The warthogs are on the left and the bush pigs on the right.












Also this time we saw monkeys and even a mangy looking ostrich. It was pretty funny seeing the ostrich, since I had the camera, but David was sitting by the window that the ugly bird was walking towards. David kept trying to put up the window, but with the drops of water on the glass, I couldn't get a good picture of the ostrich. So I was yelling to David to roll the window down and he was yelling back that I was not the one that was sitting by the window and going to get pecked. I retorted that it's not going to peck him and that I needed it down for a good picture. Well that big bird walked right up to the window in the mist of our friendly little argument and instead of sticking it's head through the window to peck anyone, it just opened up it's nasty-looking wing, bent it's neck all the way around, and began pulling at the mangy feathers with it's beak. Gross! I don't think I've ever seen a nastier-looking ostrich. View these next pictures at your own discretion.









Ok so I can't end this post with that! So here are a few more nicer looking pictures of the Mlilwane safari to end on a better note :)