The Story So Far... Day 4 - Friday 27th July

We started off the day with a brilliant day with cereal, toast and such things. Typically, I woke up just in time for breakfast...barely. And then we were off to another suprise day for the Harambee Kids, to see both the elephant and giraffe sanctuarys. First off were the elephants, none of the kids had seen elephants before and as someone who had been to the sanctuary I was able to pay more attention to how the Harambee kids saw it. It was INCREDIBLE! The only 2 looks we saw were happiness and confusion and they loved it as did the rest of us, once we got past the barrier of explaining these were only baby elephants they were even more amazed and we had a great time watching the elephants roll about in the dirt and occasionally squirting water towards some rather squeamish explorers, we also got to meet a the blind rhino Maxwell up close which gained a great response.

A quick carpark side lunch and a little bit of shopping (mostly in KFC for some of us), and we headed off to event 2 of the day, the giraffes.... The kids sat through a presentation from the staff and were incredibly silent for a group of 30ish kids, and then it was time to feed the giraffes, not satisfied with feeding by hand some of us decided to follow the lead of the instructors and feed them from holding the pellets between our lips, certain people (Our esteemed District Comissioner Tom Nixon)

 seemed to enjoy this more than others but it provided great entertainment for us and the Harambee kids. We ended the day with a meal provided by the staff at the campsite and some brilliant singing and dancing by the Harambee kids to say thank you to us. A truly moving day enjoyed by everyone and another wonderful reminder of how great and important the work that Harambee are doing along with any groups that go over.
Further highlights included some very brave monkeys/foolish humans, a brilliant meal time tv program that was based in a courthouse (great hand motions going on), and elephants making their moves on some of us humans (particuarly Michael)... Almost the end of camp at Rowallen and the best way to sum it up is, its like camping in England...but with added monkeys.
Written by David Heathcote
Scout Network Member