The animals are dangerous here!

Friday, March 24, 2017

Up early and the tent still looks as it should in the morning.  Packed up camp.  As breakfast was finishing, a family of wart hogs came right up to us.  This was unnerving as the mother had some very big tusks.  We all ended up on the picnic table telling it to leave.  Levi credits himself with being so fearsome that he scared the crap out of one of the babies.  As we were leaving, the crocs were now feeding on the mystery meat, and that gave us about 30 minutes of entertainment.  The crocs we estimated were between 3 and 4 meters.  We then went to the glass factory where they blow glass.  The boys and I agreed, this was way more interesting than we imagined.  We got to view them making animals and glasses from scratch from an elevated platform.  Temperature in the room was around 40 C.  It takes 8 people to make an animal and 3 people to make a glass.  We came away with several small animals for our memories of the place.  We then moved through Pigs Peak and exited Swaziland.  Arriving in Kruger, it took us an hour from the gate to the Scucuzi Camp.  On route saw some elephant and other antelope type animals.  Considering in Addo we stopped for 10 minutes to take picture of elephant poo, now we do not even stop for an elephant.  We are getting spoiled.   40 C in Kruger today.  A late afternoon swim after setting up our tents on some very hard ground felt very good.  Now to find out how poor the internet is here.  To add to our days excitement, after logging off we were walking back from the reception area to our camp when a hyena ran across the road beside us, about 10 meters away.  Seeing a hyena next to you is frightening, and had us all backing up quickly.  We managed to flag down a young couple in a van and tell them they had to give us a ride back to our camp, which they did.  Back at our camp, we then noticed the signs in the abolution blocks about the hyenia problem in the camp.