Breakfast For a Queen...

When one is woken at around 5.30 am one knows exactly what lies ahead. Summer morning game drive…This time however we were not in search of the King’s and their queens but rather something different- something nobody has seen for a very long time.

With Casper at the wheel we leave our teas and coffees’s behind and jump into the “rhino” and set off, down the trails of Ubizane, out the main gate and into the Hluhluwe Park. We saw our regular friends who great us nearly every time, the tiny terrorist-like baboons, who are defiantly not shy to pose for the camera in the most undignified positions. As well as a few buffalo, zebra and of course the model-material giraffe.

 The sun was out and one could feel the animals up and awake and ready to get the days’ show on the road… breakfast time.We did not expect to see lions this time as we were on the lookout for a few elephants or hippo or something we else that we have not manage to see yet. However we were rather please when a Queen popped her head out of a bush and walked across the road. Her paws so big and stamina so graceful, really and truly a beautiful creature.

Casper wanted us to get an even closer look at this beautiful animal so we moved closer and Casper followed her as close as he could to wherever she was off to. The closer we got the lower she crouched to the floor and crawled further into the bush, this I thought was rather peculiar, I never knew of them being shy animals?Then next this we know we see her jump up and run, run as fast as lightning into a herd full of buffalo, the buffalo part in half to form a pathway for her to run through. It was as though they were both in synch with one another. Then next thing you know we see a large warthog running in the distance…

Her choices for breakfast… pork sausages or bacon. She was getting closer and closer and the warthog in defense ran into the taller bush and far into the wilderness, she was close on his trail but from then onward we saw no more of the hog or the Queen.

it is a rather sad thing to see a kill of an animal, but yet again it is one of mother nature most amazing sightings, the prey vs. the predator.

When we returned back to Ubizane, the smell of bacon, eggs and other delights were tempting our taste buds from the restaurant… Our breakfast had arrived too!

YUMMY!