We are now in Johannesburg Airport filling in time - about 8 hours of time - before our flight to Australia. Yesterday we visited the Addo Elephant Park, which is just east of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. By lunchtime we were thinking of renaming it Addo Warthog Park, and our guide was scratching his head wondering how you can hide 450 elephants in a wildlife park. We had seen plenty of warthogs and kudu (antelopes with curly horns), vervet monkeys, lots of colourful birds, a large tortoise and a lion's pawprint - mustn't forget the amazing and enormous dung beetles - but no elephants. Then in the afternoon we found them, at least 50 ranging from a large bull to baby around a couple of weeks old. They paid us not a bit of notice, grazing right up to the road and strolling across in front of us. We also saw zebra, a solitary jackal, and several other varieties of antelope, then right at the end a small group of buffalo. What a day! Our guide was great as were our hosts at the V&A Guest House in Port Elizabeth who organised the trip for us.
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