You would
think elephants would be pretty easy to find, after all they weigh three and a
half tons. But it’s kind of like finding a needle in a haystack. When it came
to elephants, our guide Manny was a possessed man. He tracked them by looking
for broken branches, handling their big piles of dung, and looking for elephant
tracks.
We’ve only
found them once since we’ve been here. Last time we were within probably 20
yards of them before Manny sensed one was getting agitated and we had to move.
This time
it was just the three of us Manny, Roy and me in the truck. Manny said that if
he could find the elephants, he was going to get us up close and personal.
The video
is long and unfortunately we can only download a small portion of it. It doesn’t
even come close to showing what being within inches of these elephants in the
wild was like. My heart was beating so fast and yet I was frozen in awe of
these magnificent creatures. If you watch closely you will see the elephant
charge us and then hear Manny our guide yell at the elephant NO! Then you will
see the elephant back off. This is by far the coolest animal interaction that
we have ever had. Africa just continues to amaze us.
