South Africa Day 8- Addo Elephant Park

Addo Elephant Park started 1931 with only 11 elephants it now is home to over 450 elephants, Cape Buffalo, Black Rino, Zebra, lots of different type of antelope and a very unique flightless dung beetle found almost exclusively in Addo. Of course we were most exited about seeing the elephants so we started to get a bit anxious when our guide pulled over and spent 5 minutes telling us about this guy (below- flightless dung beetle). Can you see it? The large black beetle on the elephant dung. So exiting!!! Then we came across this guy, a male kudu. He really was beautiful. Next we saw a tortuous and a lizard, but still no elephants. Until...

we came to this watering hole where over 40 elephants had come to drink and play and cool off. It was awesome. The youngest elephant in this group was about 3 months old. Baby elephants do not have control over there trunks until they are about 18 mo. to 3 years old. It was so fun to watch the little ones flinging their trunks around. While we sat there watching them more groups of elephants from all around us were walking to the watering hole. We saw over 100 elephants that day. It was amazing!