Comprising a Life
The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting
Kruger National Park
Roughly comparable in size to Massachusetts, Kruger National Park lies 250 miles north-east of Johannesburg and is bordered to the north and south by two rivers, the Limpopo and the Crocodile respectively. To the east the Lebombo Mountains separate it from Mocambique.
A small group of members from the Eastern Bonsai Society, in Johannesburg toured me through it and up through the arid area where the baobab trees grow.
This one was a cantankerous one and when cars would park to view the hippos in a small lake he would run over and try to push them into it before they could back away in time. We scooted back quickly and avoided him.
Staking out a water-hole we were soon rewarded by the arrival of a lioness that walked between our cars.
Definitely a candidate for implants, this monkey had likely been fed before and expected something from us.
On the day of my departure, I picked up an Africana paper at the airport. One of the party that saw me off, interpreted for me that a group, touring the park had gotten out of their tour vehicle and one man was eaten alive by a pride of lions.
