Monday (Day 14): Port Elizabeth

Vaughn and his precious wife, Ilsa, planned a lovely day for us – they packed sandwiches, snacks and drinks for us (before we even woke up), then Vaughn loaded us into the Landrover and we rode off to Sea View Reserve. After seeing two stunning lions (a lioness and a white lion), we rode up on some giraffe standing in the road - much to Joe's delight! He did actually think for a minute...this is my only chance to hug a giraffe...but the thought quickly left him as he admired their size and strength. We then moved up the hill where we enjoyed several 10-day-old cubs, and then…and this is the best part…we got to play with three 3-month-old cubs. This was such a memorable, precious experience!

We then moved onto Addo Elephant Reserve, which also was an incredible treat! We saw 50+ elephants, buffalo, zebra, loads of Kudu buck, little vervet monkeys and much more! We were literally surrounded by elephants at one point in time – it was fabulous!! As we were heading out, driving up a hill, there was a beautiful, huge lion sitting on the edge of the cliff looking out over it’s Addo buffet (deciding on dinner most likely). What a lovely end to our ‘wild’ day.
We headed out to Kenton on Sea that afternoon to spend a couple of nights with my dad’s sister, Ruth, and her hubby Hugh. We enjoyed a lovely meal with them and then hit the sack (still a little wired from our astonishing bridge jump on Sunday…we’re still a little bewildered that we even did that!!).