New Year Celebrations - Crawford style

It’s midnight, New Year’s Eve! You are in the centre of the exotic city, Dar Es Salaam.! The world is excitedly celebrating the start of 2018! So what do you do?

 Malcolm and Stephen slept.

Ok!. They had had a hectic week on Safari, had just travelled 10 hours on an African bus to get here, and Stephen had a 4am flight back to England, but come on!

 

In the meantime Irene had  her own way of celebrating the New Year, reflecting on the exciting safari we had been on, when she came across some wild-life of her own in her bath.

 

But at least it had been a safe Safari.

 

Irene only had one request for our driver, Sam. She wanted to see a leopard. She knew there were meant to be some in Ruaha National Park but they were very difficult to find, being asleep during the day (a bit like the Crawfords).

 

We did come across another hunter – a cheeky monkey who raided our early morning breakfast. Fortunately Malcolm is quick on the draw, took a shot and caught the thief on camera.

 

Stephen took the evidence and interviewed the other monkeys to try and get the stolen property returned – he failed.

 

Stephen’s holiday homework set by his school class was to get a photo of Ellie, the class mascot, with a range of animals including elephant, giraffe, monkey, a kangaroo and a tiger – difficult, as the last 2 are not found in Africa.

But we saw lots of animals – we hope the following will give you a taste for African wild-life.