Friday, April 4, 2008

Aquila Safari

Friday morning.

Up and ready to go at the unearthly hour of 5am, the Eltham College Tour party head off to Aquila Private Game Reserve in the Karoo region of the Cape.

Aquila has the Big 5, free roaming elephant, Lion, Buffalo, Rhino and rare Mountain Leopard and is also home to Giraffe and Hippo. Large herds of game are found on the Reserve such as Black Wildebeest, Burchell's Zebra, Springbok, Gemsbok, Steenbok, Caracal (lynx), Blesbok, Bat Eared Fox, Ostriches, Klip Springer, Duiker, Greybuck, Baboon, Black Backed Jackal, Eland, Red Hartebeest.