The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

To get to the cave paintings we had to climb a sacred mountain in the heat. Which none of us were very enthusiastic about.

The mountain is covered in lichen, which made it very pretty and colourful.

There was no other vegetation. The hard rock doesn’t absorb water, and it all runs off unless it collects in pools.

From the top of the mountain you could see the surrounding farms.

You are allowed to climb the sacred mountain, but you are not allowed to point at it. We are not sure why.

But we are glad we got to climb it because it was a really pretty view.

This is a pretty lake in Zimbabwe.

It looks like a good place to go for a swim.

But you probably shouldn’t.

This is a pretty boring butterfly.

Here is the pretty lake from a different angle.

Here we are with the mommy and baby rhinoceros.

The mom was much bigger than the baby. But not as big as a male would be.

The baby was small and really cute.

Really super cute.

Even though he’s much bigger than us and has a horn.

They trim the rhinos horns every 10 years to deter poachers. They horns are dead, like fingernails, so it doesn’t hurt. And they don’t have any big predators left so they don’t really need them.

Their horns aren’t really sharp even when they are babies because the white rhino horns are not as big and sharp as the black rhino horns.

But they would normally be bigger and sharper than this.

Did I mention the baby was really cute?

Mom was less cute.

Today we went out to search for Rhinos.

Kerri actually rode on the front of the truck while it was moving. But didn’t get any good pictures because it was getting dark.

To spot the rhinos we climbed the hills so that we could see further.

They were very rocky.

From the top we spotted a rhino.

Two rhinos in fact, a mom and a baby.