The day Ruth and Ed were leaving we visited the Spier Cheetah Outreach program. We had the opportunity to get up and personal with these beautiful beasts. They ensure the safety of free range cheetah’s, by educating the public. Cheetah’s tend to kill the live stock on farms, so the outreach program will rescue them. They also breed Turkish Anatolian Shepherd dogs to protect the live stock, thus scaring the cheetah’s away. There are approximately 1000 Cheetah’s left in South Africa. Next to the outreach program is the Eagle Encounter, a bird of prey rehabilitation and education facility. Arriving just in time to see the falconer feed a secretary bird, photo right. They like snakes, so he ties food to the end of a plastic snake and teases the bird. Using his legs and talons, the secretary bird kicks and stomps on the snake until it is dead. Another treat was watching him train and feed the Harris hawks, mentioning they are one of the smartest birds and he can train them in less than a week. The children had the opportunity to pet a barn owl, top right and huddled in a protective crate were four baby barn owls. After our encounters we headed to Moyo for a refreshing drink and the children were excited to get their faces painted. Before dropping granny and grandpa off at the airport, we stopped for some tea at Vredenheim winery, where they had the Cape Town Lion encounter, featuring white lions. In one day the children had the opportunity to pet a cheetah, lion and owl, not to bad
Granny and Grandpa had a long and safe trip home. Phoebe and Drake recovered after only a few hours […]
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