The Elephant Trip

On Sunday we went out at five o’clock in the morning on the elephant safari. There were three jeeps. A few minutes after we had entered the national park we saw our first elephant. The elephant was by itself, we named the elephant ‘Keith’.

Further into the park we saw a herd of elephants – about eleven of them. There was a really tiny baby elephant, this elephant was surrounded by all the other elephants. At one point an elephant broke away from the group and came over to each jeep. When the elephant came over to my jeep it started to throw mud over itself and lots of mud came into the jeep. We nicknamed her ’Maggie’

We stopped for breakfast by a lake, there were about seven crocodiles on the banks on the other side. There were wilder beasts and lots of birds.

Later on we saw another herd of elephants made up of over fifteen elephants. The elephants walked in a line into a large pool of water – which was green. There were three baby elephants in this herd, when they stood in the water it covered most of their bodies so they stuck their trunks above the water to breathe. In the water there was a crocodile, but it didn’t respond to the elephants. One of the larger elephants stood closest to the crocodile and watched it’s every move. We found out that this elephant was the leader of the herd. Maggie came over to the jeeps again but this time she was more confident and stayed there for longer. She came right up to the jeeps until the drivers made her leave. We only saw two elephants on Sunday that still had their tusks.

On the way out of the park we saw the same elephant as on the way in – Keith. He hadn’t moved since we saw him. On the way back to the hotel we had a race in the jeeps ending with a close finish. The majority of the people we passed on the road/street all waved and shouted at the jeep. We got back to the hotel at eleven o’clock. We went to the pool for a few hours, had lunch then got back onto the coach to go back to Tropic Inn.

Clarissa