Kruger National Park

[twisteroo]

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Any more requests?

So the lion in the sidecar is out?
You got any of you with your head in a lion's mouth?

[PIG]

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I guess they fed the kitties last week, cause none of them tried to eat me. Sorry twist. Maybe next time?

I dunno. I've never seen anything more than mild curiosity from them. Last year we came across a pride of about 9 lions walking down the middle of the road in the middle of the day. Which was odd in itself. They were pretty hungry looking, thin and very interested in a herd of impala a little way up the road. We drove on ahead, and pulled the car sideways, waiting for them to come to us. The shot of the one "snarling" is from then. We were in a little citi golf, or what ever you call them over there, so their heads were higher than mine. They walked straight towards me, one after the other, and seemed kinda annoyed that they had to go around the car. Never even seemed to consider opening the can though.

On sunday I was chatting to a couple of german tourists at a lion kill. The woman seemed to think a lioness had tried to get into her car because she had a chicken (presumably for dinner) on the back seat. But she managed to wind her window up in time. Then, as if predetermined, the lioness continued past the car with the now closed window and went off and killed an impala. I can tell you this, she would not have had time to close the window if it wanted to get in there. It was just using them as cover.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'm sure they are so used to tourists too. But, IMO they have to be fed to some degree because if times are lean and tourists are there, lions are going to try to eat. Now, stupid arrogant tourists - how about those?

I've had to rescue a couple of people from bison and moose here out in Wyoming when I went out to Yellowstone and Custer State Park. Some Swedish (sounded like it anyway) woman stopped on rt 16 on the way home over the Big Horns to let her kid out of the car to pet the horse. Jesus H Christ! That thing would have killed that child and I grabbed the kid, brought her back to the RV and told the mother off. Hopefully she understood SOME of the English I was spewing!

Custer State Park - stupid Japanese and their cameras. Mom and infant in arms walks over to a grazing cow with her calf for a photo. The herd started rumbling, cow was PISSED and I grabbed the two of them and shuttled them to their car pronto. Idiots. And they were looking at me like I was nuts until the herd ran past the vehicle, which I was cowering behind until they passed! We were all very lucky. On another day a bull broadsided a whole truck full of Japanese because they just HAD to disobey the rules of staying on the road and not drive into the fields to get a closer look. Now that was funny.

[twisteroo]

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Rocket begs for cat food on my deck.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Erm... there's a full bowl to his right.

Does he let you pet him yet?

give him a bag of flour to play with. Hysteria for hours.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Hey Twist, if you make it to the Sturgis area, make sure you get into Custer State Park. It's really nice and I think you'll like it.

[twisteroo]

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Only if there are boobies there.

I dunno how much time I will have if the bike does run that far out and back.
I got about 14 days and about 6,000 miles. Sounds doable, right?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Very doable.

[twisteroo]

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And no, I can't/won't try to pet that mangy bastard.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'd pet him and let him hang out in my lap if he let me.