Travelog for: Jubilee Bunny

We welcomed Decker who arrived for his visit in SA.



Vicki photographed us with some soon-to-be TV's that are waiting to be posted into the wide world for adventure. There is a wild dog, an 'aardvark' (anteater), a babboon and a rhinoceros too. Olly the ostrich will stay in SA and visit with Vicki for a while.

The gathering is also time for me to say goodbye to everyone. I am going to my next host in South Africa, her name is Julia and I will continue my South African adventures with her.

I will miss everyone at Vicki's house we have had a fantastic time travelling together...
Take care Jubilee Bunny, we will miss you too!!! Come back and visit soon.

After my lovely stay with Vicki and her great family, I left them to join my new host Julia. Julia also lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and I’m very excited to see what we’re going to get up to together. She’s already told me about lots of upcoming adventures and I can’t wait to see more of her beautiful country.

We arrived home and I noticed how beautiful the moon is, so I got my best model face out and posed for some photos. It’s so hard being adored.


Julia’s cat Jenny, is a little nervous of me but I’m hoping we’re going to become very good friends. Don’t worry, sararingham, Jenny doesn’t eat bunnies.


I decided that I needed to check my appearance in the mirror before Julia took me on a brief tour of the garden.


Julia decided that I should try out a bicycle and get some exercise. It was great fun and I can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds.

We were all excited about the trip out to Glenburn Lodge for Julia's boyfriends friend's wedding. Julia's boyfriend, Sean, picked us up and we started drivng the 30 minutes to the venue, just outside of Johannesburg.

Unfortunately on the way there, it started pouring down with rain, so the wedding involved a lot of running around at high speed from one sheltered place to another. So there was hardly a moment for photo's.



The next morning, we took a short walk around the venue, because Sean's dad is very ill and was feeling quite bad, we had to head home very soon in the day.

Here's me by the beautiful Swartkops
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Here I am by the river, see how fast that water is running after the storm?


We stopped off at the wedding venue the next morning and they were already setting up for the next function! What a nice venue!


This is the road out of the venue, look at how high the river is!! It's flooded straight over the road!


After all that working, i needed a break!

Julia took me to work today! It was actually really really boring!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I've been so quiet! Julia has been working extra long hours so that she can finish all her work, before we leave for our trip! 2 days! Can you believe it? 2 days and I'll be seeing a whole new country for the 1st time! A proper african safari!

Aisha arrived today from the Ukraine! What a nice mouse and I'm so glad she's joining me in the bush, I was a little nervous about the trip.

We left for Botswana at 5pm on the 19th of December 2008. We met our guide in Lephalale on the border of South Africa and Botswana. We spent the night in campsite there and then continued our journey to Botswana the next day. The campsite was basic but had shady trees and decent bathrooms.


We spent the night on a roof tent on top of the Landrover. It kept the mosquitos out and had a comfortable mattress. 


Here we are relaxing on the bonnet on our first morning of the trip.



We were travelling in Landrover Defenders and although these cars are big and bulky, they are also top heavy. About 20km into Botswana, while travelling on a dirt road, Julia’s boyfriend (Sean) sister, Talitha, nearly rolled the car. She tried to over take another car but left it too late and starting sliding on the sand. After much screaming, Sean’s younger brother, grabbed the steering wheel and forced her to keep the wheels straight and accelerate. My life flashed before my eyes and Julia had to apologise a thousand times to use before we calmed down.



After driving for what seem like hours, we eventually got to our destination. The Magadikgadi Salt Pans, which you may have seen Jeremy Clarkson drive across in Top Gear. The pans are the size of Portugal. We spent the night at Kubu Island, and here you can see Julia, Sean and his dad, Haggis, at the start of the pans.



To get to Kubu Island you have to drive a third of the way across the pans, over very slippery sand surface. Here Sean is with the Landies on the pans.



As you drive into Kubu Island, the first thing you see is a giant Baobab tree and thats about it. There are houses for miles and miles around.


We set up camp for the night camped under another Baobab.


Sean took us up the baobab, so we could get a better view. The green plastic sheeting in front of the tree is our shower. The day had been so hot that the water we used that night was still warm.



As we watched the sunset over the pans, we thanked our lucky stars that we were in beautiful Africa.

We barely slept a wink. Not only was it the hottest night of the year but there were all sorts of wild creatures about. The scorpions were huge and had the fattest tails you’ve ever seen. The spiders were roughly the size of an adult’s shoe. Apparently they’re called Red Roman spiders, and although they aren’t poisonous, they are huge and very nosey about their surroundings. We woke up at 3am to find a Red Roman spider, thankfully, on the outside of our tent. It was climbing all over, trying to find a way in. When it was finally time to get up, at 4am, we heard an owl hooting and then the screeching sound of an owl catching its prey. We then heard a small wild cat crying. So we think its mother was taken by an owl, although we couldn’t find the cat once we were out of the tent.

We climbed to the top of Kubu Island to watch the sunrise over the salt pans. A sight I will never forget. Unfortunately, Sean’s dad, who is busy recovering from Cancer, started feeling very sick this morning. So the mood was dampened. 




While we were on top of Kubu Island, we came across a tree, that had over the years picked up a large rock and lifted it into the air as it grew.


We left Kubu Island and drove through the salt pans once more. Here I am in the pans.


Here we are by the landrovers in the pans.



We arrived at Xyga late that afternoon, but unfortunately Sean’s dad’s condition went from bad to worse and we had to drive him the 30 minutes to Maun hospital. We spent the next few days there, before he was airlifted back to Johannesburg. We later found out that he had had a brain aneurism and had slipped into a coma.



We spent a 2 days at the Xyga campsite before he was moved, and we spent a lot of time in the swimming pool.



Then we started to head back to South Africa

On our way home, we were lucky enough to see Elephant on the side of the road in Botswana. We must have seen HUNDREDS of elephants, I couldn't believe our luck.


They were everywhere!