Cape Town Mission Field 

12 November 2019
  Day 702
Tuesday
Count Up => +16

We had a nice breakfast after fending off the monkeys that took our jam and butter packets off the table on the patio by the pool. We then were picked up by the Heritage Tour guides, Stephan and Togo. We headed into Cape Vidal, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site for Isimangaliso (meaning a magical place) so dedicated in 1999 and named by Nelson Mandela. It has 1 million hectares which is half the size of Kruger.
We saw several great sites; Rhinos, Red Dika, Bushbuck, Kudu, Warthogs and the Sambanga Monkey (endangered). We also got hit by a couple of dung beetles that flew into the open air vehicle we were traveling in. They are big and just as we were getting dropped off at the end of our expedition one of them crawled up Elder Courtright's pant leg. It kind of freaked him out for a moment until he realized what it was. We stopped at the beach where Kerry went snorkeling with Rogers (a young man on vacation from Pinelands). Turns out he lives about a mile away from where we lived in Pinelands. We also met a couple with some of their family that have been traveling for 4 years and have 2 more years to go on their world tour. While on the beach Sister Courtright was eating an orange and a Yellow Billed Kite swooped down from behind her to grab the orange and ended up biting her finger and gave her a small gash. We also saw some baby warthogs. The weather held off and eventually opened up to give us a little bit of sun among a cool breeze. Turned into a real nice day. We ate lunch at a rocky beach. They provided BBQ chicken and potato salad. While eating we had a very interesting caterpillar crawling on the picnic table. He was very flat and furry with strange coloration's that would definitely make him invisible while on the bark of any tree.
We got cleaned up and went downtown to get a bite to eat at Braza. Sister Courtright got a shish-kabob type dish that hung from a skewer above her dinner plate.
Great day!
Dung Beetles getting busy



Large male Kudu, there are no Lions on this reserve so they get rather large





Yellow Billed Kite


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