Recent Bush Life

Last week there was a small herd of elephants just across the river from CARE. I was sitting in the baby hok and all of a sudden we could hear elephants trumpeting so loudly. They just kept trumpeting and trumpeting. It was an incredible noise. Apparently they were angry at a group of giraffes nearby. The babies were quite scared of the noise (and Alena was kind enough to show that by pooping all over my lap), so that wasn't so nice, but the noise they made was too cool. It was a neat 'life in the bush' moment. There have also been elephants very close by ever since. A couple girls saw one while running up the road. And this morning the sign at the entrance to CARE is knocked down. In the middle of the night last night lions could be heard not too far away as well.