{"id":2152,"date":"2018-11-24T06:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T05:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2018-11-24T07:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T06:01:57","slug":"the-wolwedans-game-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2018\/the-wolwedans-game-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wolwedans Game Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been a bit spoiled by the game drives at Okonjima, where it was almost a challenge not to see a great variety of game. The Wolwedans equivalent was less productive: after 4 hours in the jeeps under a blazing sun we saw a <em>lot<\/em> of oryx, one solitary zebra, fleeting glances of a jackal and a fox (they really don&#8217;t like being anywhere near humans), and a dot on the hillside which my longest lens just about resolved to something ostrich-shaped.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back the sun was steadily on the back of my neck and I was lucky not to get sunburnt. I can really recommend Coppertone Sport.<\/p>\n<p>However, I really mustn&#8217;t grumble. The scenery is magnificent, the oryx are fun, and I&#8217;m still privileged to be here. Please enjoy another picture of an oryx:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/photoblog\/2018\/slides\/181123_G9_1004192.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltxt\">Oryx sheltering from the sun. I could usefully have done the same thing!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been a bit spoiled by the game drives at Okonjima, where it was almost a challenge not to see a great variety of game. The Wolwedans equivalent was less productive: after 4 hours in the jeeps under a blazing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/2018\/the-wolwedans-game-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}