The Other South Africa

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So there were a lot of weird things in Southern Africa – things that didn’t quite fit in or were just plain funny. Didn’t have the time or bandwidth to upload all of my pictures and all of these funny things while I was over there, but now that I’m home, I’ve got all the time and bandwidth in the world. So here are a few of the more interesting, or at least humorous, parts of Southern Africa that I have caught on camera.

So this was in London, not Africa. But it still counts as funny randomness. Don’t know what fly pitching exactly is, but pretty sure it isn’t fly fishing. Shucks. Not that I would want to fly fish in the River Thames anyways…

Outside the African Wild Dog pen at the De Wildt cheetah center. African Wild Dogs have a hunting efficiency of 95% (highest in Africa) and cane devourer an antelope in less than a minute.

Snake Park Sign #1: The place was on a big reservoir, and yes, pretty much all the water was green.

Snake Park Sign #2: Indeed the buttocks were swollen and the female was “in season”.

Snake Park Sign #3: True words indeed.

Snake Park Sign #4: This was in the bathroom.

Having fun in Swaziland (the first time). Gotta love big rocks and an even bigger sun.

Also in Swaziland. This was one place where our food was prepared, and subsequently scavenged by the goats.

At the Tembe Elephant Reserve. And yes, we did encounter dung beetles and gave them the right of way.

Playing with food in Swaziland. AFSP = African Foreign Study Program. ’06 = 2006 (duh). Was made in this ucky Maize porridge. The left is a bowl of sugar, and the right the porridge.

At the Apartheid Museum in Joburg.

So more often than not when we didn’t know what to get for lunch or dinner, we went to Roman’s Pizza, a chain pizza place in South Africa like Pizza Hut, just a lot cheaper. And this is what we always got the bill in. Thought it was pretty funny.

Apparently the best way to feed cheetahs is with a metal spoon duck taped to the end of a old broom handle. Makes sense.

Me playing with Carlos, the baby pet Meerkat, at the White Elephant Lodge in Namibia.

So our bus got stuck in Swaziland (part deux). And we pushed it out. Fun times.

A sign telling you what you can and can’t do at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens outside of Cape Town. Love the cleaning up after your dog and chopping down trees squares.