So today we leave for the Giraffe Safari. Ken and Sheila are already there doing a pre-safari trip with their family. I am sure they are having a wonderful time.

We fly Qatar to Doha (overnight in the airport hotel) then arrive in JNB on the 7th.

On the 8th we are flying to a camp I have not visited before called Tswalu in the Kalahari Desert. Going to be a new experience for us - new camp and never been to the Kalahari before.

Then we meet up with 12 of the group in JNB on the 10th to leave for a Kwandwe Safari Lodge on the Cape where we will do RHINO darting.. They check every Rhino every year and the money we pay to be involved supports the cost of Rhino monitoring.

Then it is back to JNB to meet the remaining people in the safari group. We do 3 nights at Lion Sands, 3 nights at Mala Mala and 3 nights at Royal Malewane.

Jim and Pam are also taking their family on a safari POST our trip and have time to fill in so they are joining me on checking out two new camps in the Madikwe Area.

Going to be gone until August 1st --- the wild dogs are calling me.