Rhinos at breakfast

Well, it's not every day you are joined by four white rhinos at breakfast.. It was a long day in the saddle yesterday as we had some guests staying who wanted to do some "proper" riding. This is a rare occurence as most of our guests can't ride or think they can but in actual fact really only know how to ride western style. Anyway, we set off at 7am and rode for three hours before reaching our bush breakfast site. As we approached, we were commenting on the fact that it was a shame we hadn’t yet seen any rhinos. Lo and behold, there are two white rhinos quite close to our breakfast spot which quickly became four as two more emerged from the long grass. Keeping one eye on the rhinos, we tucked into breakfast. May be rhinos like scrambled eggs and bacon because they decided they would come closer and have a good look. I can definitely say that I have not been that close to rhino whilst on foot. I had to laugh when the guests asked if this was normal at bush breakfast for rhinos to come so close –  well, no actually!! Eventually after having a good look at us, the rhinos ambled off. Refueled, we set off again riding for another two hours before returning to Wilderness. I wish we had more guests like this as it was fantastic to go on such a long ride and see some new areas of  Lewa.