Friday 1 November 2013

Walking with Elephants

Who said an accountants life was boring. 
Yes we work all the time, but these days accountants can choose where we work from. (Me in the middle, hard at work)

I had the privilege of spending the week at Imiri Game Reserve, for a client's annual general meeting. 

The highlight of the time away was to ride the elephants! Yes you read it correctly. To stretch your legs over the back of this enormous beast is a feat of bravery or madness. Once we settled in, the peace that exuded from the elephant bull brought a tranquility and stillness to us. For sometime I did not speak and listened. Surprisingly the elephant was quiet even when it walked. A team member commented that we could not hear their footsteps.
This special moment made us treasure our environment, and that we don't have to stretch our legs like that too often.

There were special encounters with black rhino, which are part of a breeding program on Imiri. As we stroked the rough hides of the rhino's, they voiced their cause with dinosaur like groans. We paused to consider the plight of the rhino and whether we would ever have such an encounter or see the sturdy rhino like this again. They are powerful and yet need our care to survive.

Imiri Game Reserve was a special place with a unique experience, and I worked hard too...

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