Tue 6 Jun 2006
Siesta, South African Style
Posted by chris_engel under Africa, Image
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January in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa is hot. As we were leaving the Tala Valley Game Reserve, we saw these Eland and this Rhino lounging about. It had rained like the end of the world the night before, and the heat was on, so they were resting through the worst of the midday humidity. If you’ve never been up close to these animals it’s hard to imagine just how big they really are. I mean huge. It would be easy to spend a whole day just watching them run and go about their lives. I tried to imagine what it would be like to live in their world prior to the coming of fences, rifles, and the protections of civilization. How humbling would it be to live *in* their world, where you were just another animal trying to avoid the predators. And compete with beasts like this for survival. Sobering stuff.



