FEAR AND FASCINATION ON SAFARI WITH

TEAM FREDERICKS _{by Anna Bruce}

Anna Bruce follows Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks on their South African safari adventure at Wait A Little.

...Within five minutes of leaving the Wait A Little camp – so named after the local, innocuous looking bush that once caught in requires you to ‘wait a little’ to get out due to its hidden thorns – and we were riding 50metres from three young giraffe.

No sooner than we had got over our shock, and Philip heard a bull elephant nearby and so we quietly followed him to see it tucked into some trees, moving silently and only audible when it ate!

We then moved on with Philip giving his first offering of what was to be his catchphrase of the trip, “Shall we warm the horses up?”

This was to mean galloping along stony tracks, through rough bush, pushing past overhanging branches and leaning out over sharp turns for some kilometres.

Impala and baboons galloped or jumped out of the way as we turned towards home, stopping only for a ‘sundowner’ of beer, wine or G & T, and allowing the horses to graze freely before we got back into the saddle and walked them home...

Read more about Lucinda and Clayton's experience here.