First of all, can we discuss why National Geographic has changed their TV name to NatGeo? Why fix something that wasn't broken? It just seems cheesy and annoying. Anywho....
I'm writing this blog in the middle (and I mean smack dab middle) of the Serengeti. We came in this morning for some meetings and such. While driving through the village closest to the park there was some high dealing between my host and the local teacher in the village. After about 5 minutes of discussion my host turns to me and says, you want to see something cool. Uhhh... totally! So we start driving down a dirt road that takes us out of the village. About half way down, we turn off and are now driving through the high grass field, I swear that Serengeti is what the Great Plains must have looked like 150 years ago, complete with animal migration, but I digress...
After driving across the field we see about 75 people all standing around in the middle of the field, but we couldn't tell what it was because the grass was so high. We get close and see a HUGE elephant on the ground, headless, and there is a guy (sorry if you are faint of heart) hacking the tusk out of the elephants head with an ax. But these were no poachers, apparently this elephant, and his unfortunately brother which was receiving the same treatment about 1/2 mile away, was destroying crops and the village called in the game warden who shot both elephants last night. The villagers will get over 7000 kilos of meat from each elephant. Seriously something I never in a million years thought I would see. I have a some incredible pictures if you think you can stomach it. I also have a gruesome video. Oy.
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Where are all these pictures you keep telling us about? Am I missing something?
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