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Greg Hoskins — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:47:41 +0000

People have asked me where we stayed while on our safari, so I figured I’d post a picture of one of our accommodations. This was a “tented lodge.” It was a big canvas tent with enough room to stand up in and it was elevated on a giant cement and rock pad. It was actually quite comfy! And it was great to lay in bed at night with the canvas window covers rolled up and listen to all the sounds, some of which we were hoping would keep their distance

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Greg Hoskins — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:26:43 +0000

These guys were really hard to spot in the bush. It was kind of like “Where’s Waldo” baboon style Can you find them all?

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Greg Hoskins — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:44:16 +0000

Not a real exciting picture for today’s Tanzania Tuesday, but an exciting story to go along with it! This is the elephant that almost killed us! Well, ok, maybe we didn’t almost die, but we definitely could have been in some serious trouble. Let me explain.

We pulled up to this lone elephant and turned the engine off and just watched. He turned around and squared off to our vehicle. He just stared at us for a little bit and then slowly took a couple steps towards us then stopped. I’m thinking, “OK, maybe he doesn’t want us here. We might want to think about moving.”

Well, he stared at us a for a little longer, and then he thrust his ears out to the side to make himself seem bigger and gave out a very loud yell. Now I’m thinking to myself, “That can’t be good.” So I asked Benjamin, our driver, in a very calm voice, “So, um, Benjamin. Should we, like, leave?” He turned to Rachel and I and said in his very cool accent, “No worries. It’s not a problem.”

Hmmmm, ok. If you say so. The elephant then took a few quick steps at us ready to start charging us, and then Benjamin turned the vehicle back on and revved the engine. This stopped the elephant, but he still looked like he was going to squash us like little bugs. We had a stare down where everyone was real still for what seemed like an eternity, and then Benjamin revved the engine again and the elephant turned and slowly walked in the other direction.

Whew! Disaster averted!

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Greg Hoskins — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:39:59 +0000

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there really is no shade out in the Serengeti. So what did these little cheetah cubs do? Found shade wherever possible by crawling underneath the vehicles! This one actually got up on top of the tire. In fact, there were several cubs that crawled under the vehicles and we all could not drive away until they moved. Every now and then the mother, who was only a few yards away, would call out to see where her cubs were and they would answer back from their new found shade. Rachel and I just wanted to pick one up and take it home!

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Greg Hoskins — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:48 +0000

“Whatcha lookin’ at?”

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Greg Hoskins — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:21:24 +0000

These guys are not animals you want to mess with. The Cape Buffalo can be very dangerous, and certainly won’t be winning any sort of beauty contests We had stopped to view some wildlife and I turned around in our vehicle and saw this guy just staring at me. He did not move an inch. In fact, he stared like that at me for a good 5 minutes until we started to drive away. How rude!!

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Greg Hoskins — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:30:00 +0000

We were in a part of Tanzania at the tail end of the Great Migration that occurs every year. Large herds of zebras, wildebeests, and other grazing animals follow the rains around the Serengeti area. And when I say large herds, I’m talking about hundreds of thousands! It’s hard to get the timing right unless you are there for a long period of time, because it’s all based on the rains that year. Though we did not catch hundreds of thousands, we still saw lots of larger herds throughout the Serengeti area. Here are a bunch of grazing wildebeests we came across one afternoon.