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Oliphants Stop the Traffic.

June 26th.

buy clomid and nolvadex pct We are now awaiting our “game drive,” as it is called, when a safari guide will take us out into the veld animalia ad videnda; we spent the morning doing a game drive of our own, as the South African national parks allow people to go out into the wild themselves. Our resolution to have a proper guide was strengthened considerably after our own efforts: we soon came upon a herd of elephants crossing the road, but we were quite uncertain how to deal with the situation. How close could we actually get? How dangerous were they? They are huge animals, towering over our car. Ever since we rented our car – a tiny little thing called a Chevy “Spark,” the cheapest and tiniest thing available – Catherine has been afraid that it would make a tempting target for an elephant. “The car’s pretty little,” she said when we were first looking at it. I thought she might be worried it wouldn’t be great in the event of an accident or something like that. But then she revealed her real worry: “The elephants are going to stomp us!” It’s been a refrain the whole trip. Now here we were, trying to proceed on a road which was blocked by elephants. Catherine wanted to inch closer, but then we held back – “Uuuuuhhhhh the elephants are going to stomp us!” I treated them as I have treated buffalo in the past, keeping a hundred feet between us and them.

But then on our return to camp – the road being blocked, we had to go back – we saw a huge elephant behind a bush right by the side of the road. There were other cars nearby, and the elephant paid them no mind at all. So maybe we can get closer. But I’d rather we not be the ones who get stomped.

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