Monday, July 16, 2007

The Saga of Capn. Jack Sparrow and Storm his first mate

Hello All,
David and Jeff here...
We have just returned from our 4 day trip to Kruger NP. It was awesome! You may think the best part was the hippos and elephants wondering through our camp at night, or the 10 species of antelope we saw, or the cheetahs and lions we saw at the cheetah project,or the baby hippos and elephants we saw running around or the giraffes or the numerous amounts of bird we saw, and if you thought all that was the best part, you'd be wrong. The best part was our Guide who went by the name of Edd but was better known as Jack Sparrow, Captain of the white pearl. Jack was awesome because he could drive while, singing a Africaans song and dancing with out ever missing a word, smoking a cigarette in one hand, playing air guitar, passing semi trucks on uphill curves, flicking people off, wearing a wool jacket, black crocs, a bandana with dreads underneath and a neck covered in bead necklaces a great smile behind a scraggly beard, a shirt that said "I'm a Slut" and almost never getting pulled over. He has stories that will both amaze and frighten, and could be the chef of a five star gourmet restraunt. His first mate went by the name of Storm, and was the craziest and worst driver you ever laid eyes on. He had long hair, crazy surfer sunglasses, and would pass elephants and Impala on dirt roads going 80 MPH when they were inches from the van.
We camped the whole time and went on several day game drives, one freezing cold night game drive, and a river game cruise. It was so awesome. We had a great group of people with us and had a blast.
We leave for 11 days of overlanding on the 18th, then we get to Vic Falls on the 28th, we leave for Hwange NP for 3 day safari on the 30th, return to Vic falls walk over to Zambia side of the falls on leave the following morning for a 7 day tour through the Okavango delta and return to JoBurg on the 9th.
We are then gonna try and go down the coast to partake in the highest bungee jump on the planet, which is near the coast in South Africa.
We miss all of you very much! We are having a great time together and really could not have been asked to be blessed more along the trip so far. Please keep us in your prayers, and we look forward to sharing lots of pics when we get home.
P.S. Jeffrey is starting to talk like an Ausi!

1 comment:

morgan said...

wow! sounds like your having fun! i miss you