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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Johannesburg

The next stop on my business trip was Johannesburg, South Africa. We visited the Krugersdorp Game Farm for a genuine safari with genuine real animals with teeth and everything.
 
Here we see world famous safariosos Kurt and John preparing to be driven around the game farm in a Land Rover. Note the matching hats. Note that Kurt has Elvis sunglasses, and I don't.

These are Chevy impalas.
 These are called "animals with big horns". Chevy impalas don't have big horns. You know what they say about animals with big horns, though. Right?
What's gnu with you? How dumb is that line?
 

Ground squirrel, ground round
  
Horses showing that vertical stripes can be very stylish and slimming.

 
Horse with a glandular problem.

 
Thought-provoking juxtaposition of lion and flower, symbolizing the epiphenomenal fragility of antediluvian diastrophism.


Thought provoking juxtaposition of two predatory males, demonstrating their powerful jaws and deadly teeth poised to tear flesh from bone.
 
 How can you not want to cuddle such a cute little cub?
  
Later, Kurt told the ambulance driver that he could smell the lion's breath.
 
Time for a nap after a long hard day of being watched by dorky American tourists.
So, you think you have dorky hats?!?!?
 
Ducky and Dorky, going for a walk

 
This is a vulture of some sort
 
Yes, ostriches.
 
This is an odd bird indeed. As it flies, the tail hangs way down and fluffs up and down with each wingstroke. It just does not seem like it should be able to elude predators. Beautiful, though.

 
  
Our tour guides, Mike and Jandre.

 
Later we visited the Cradle of Mankind, which is an archaeological site that has given us Australopithicus Africans. Here we see the extremely rare Revelaticus Tiedyedapieans. Revelaticus is thought to be really old. 

 
After their peregrinations, our intrepid explorers once more show no fear at Jimmy's Killer Prawns.

 
Jandre pretends that it is his birthday so that Revelaticus can pretend to sing Shosa Losa with the waitstaff. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

John, brings back fond memories! Really loves the dog vs. the lion yawn! Thanks for being such cool tourists, fearing nothing - exploring everything. Regards Jandre

John Seymour said...

I need to be honest here, Jandre. The picture underneath the yawning lion is of a Tibetan Lion Dog, also known as a Shih Tzu. While I may have implied that the pic was taken at the Krogersdorp game reserve, it was actually taken of my own dog, Scrabble. Well... ok... more honesty here... Scrabble is more my wife's dog than my dog. She lets me feed him though.