I had remembered to pack some slops under my car seat to avoid a repeat of the drama with the aunty from the golf shop that insists on shoes to enter, but the construction that was still on the go made me much more uncomfortable than the slops did.
When I checked out the new menu and the new prices, I became even more uncomfortable, but since we were there and hungry, we ordered the gold-plated toasted sarmies anyway.
I believe now that the construction is complete that the golf club is much better, but I preferred the old style feeling and especially the old prices.
The drive back down the H4-1 to Lower Sabie produced the normal gang and we only took pics of an ellie herd crossing the road.
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We arrived back at Lower Sabie around midday and the cloud cover had lifted slightly so it was boiling hot.
When we stopped, I scrounged around in the back of the bakkie for another bag of wood while the clan cruised to the EH2’s with the cameras.
Suddenly there was shrieking which caused me to bang my head on the bakkie bin.
“#$^* WTF”
The clan came charging back to the car
“SNAKE!”
I’m no snake expert but what we think is a yellow bellied sand snake had been suntanning on the cement outside the hut and Albert nearly stood on it. The snake was now parking off in the ground cover next to the unit checking us out, so I snuck in for a pic.
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Suddenly more shrieking and a family highland fling dance, another snake came out the ground cover 2m away and headed towards Bushpig’s hut which set her off at pace to make sure her door was closed.
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The new snake ducked across the open patch of sand between the EH2’s and headed straight towards an open door on the opposite end, so I called to warn the occupant.
“Watch your door, a snake is coming your direction”
The occupant didn’t speak English to well, but he approached his doorway while looking at me, so I pointed down. It took his brain a few seconds to adjust, he shouted something in a strange language, and then came flying out of his unit and across the sand patch in the opposite direction.
I didn’t want to offend him, but I was battling to not burst out laughing. The snake then stopped and slowly moved off back towards our unit where the other snake was hiding in the ground cover.
I convinced the semi-English-speaking man that we thought it was harmless and that there was another snake outside our unit, so he got his camera and followed along.
The Cow and kids then announced that they were going to the ablutions and that I must chase the snakes off.
Suddenly more shrieking halfway to the loo
“SNAKE!”
I charged off that direction while followed by the now paranoid man. It was the same model, but much smaller.
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You had also lovely lion sightings beside the sad sighting of the poor lion junior, cheetahs as well as wild dogs 
Pumbaa,
Although they saved us twice 
, I had to concentrate hard 