After breakfast in the morning we walked Gai Na out into the forest for dessert. On a leash.
Because if she decided she didn’t want to come the leash would have made a big difference.
Gai Na is 55 years old and used to work in logging and trekking camps before her mahout brought her to Elephants World to retire.
She eats watermelons whole.
She bent down so Kerri could sit in her lap. Kerri got beaten by her flapping ears. They are surprisingly hard.
She was a very cheeky elephant. Her mahout wanted her to eat the trees on the right side of the street. There was a farm with crops on the left. She kept sneaking across the street to snack on the weeds at the edge of the garden. But as soon as he looked away she went and pulled out the good stuff. Her mahout yelled and tossed a pebble at her. Which she probably didn’t even feel through her thick skin. But she backed off and came back to the right side of the road.
