I DREAMED OF AFRICA...

Going to Africa WAS but a dream, and winning a raffle helped make it come true. "I Dreamed of Africa" is a movie made in 2000 with Kim Basinger. Here I was on the old set in South Africa, petting a caracel, which is a wild cat. Our guide has raised these since they were babies, so they are quite tame. They are kept in a cage during the day, and in some of the first scenes of the movie (which indicates it's in Kenya) you can see the cat's cage.

Our guide is holding a python; one previous group had six people holding a very large one!






Lots of water buffalo, but I especially liked this image of them all cooling off in the muddy water during the heat of the day.




I fell in love with the wonderful creatures. Zebra stripes are like fingerprints; no two are exactly the same.



Got to pet this giraffe, also another animal taken care from infancy by our guide. They are such gracefully awkward (?!)animals.







What a beast! One of them charged our jeep...it sure got our heart rates up. Quite a scare!










Don't mess
with this
big momma!











This pride was having a relaxing morning...

















Baboon with
her baby.







One of the many wildebeests we saw.