{"id":573899138,"date":"2026-06-19T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899138"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:11:25","slug":"two-elephants-at-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/two-elephants-at-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Two elephants at play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was our last day on the safari, earlier this month. I shot this video on my Canon, and we&#8217;ll see how that looks on the video player now. I have other videos on my phone, which I&#8217;ll upload in due time. If I&#8217;d left in the natural audio you would hear our tour guide narrating this little mating dance. (The male was being rebuffed.) I only, just now, noticed the bird in the foreground tree branches. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaqxhti\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>There&#8217;s a lesson in that, I&#8217;m sure. But it is easy to be distracted by these other powerful, giant creatures. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to add this as boilerplate to the rest of the safari memory posts, but it is true and useful. <\/p>\n<p>I was, initially, a bit ambivalent about the idea of a safari, but found myself won over on the first day. The views were lovely, the animals we encountered were outstanding and each one felt unique, and our guide was top notch. The entire experience was stress free, aside from early morning wake ups. If we ever find ourselves in South Africa again, and going on a safari again, it&#8217;ll be with <a href=\"https:\/\/wild-wings-safaris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Wings<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re considering doing such a thing, do it. And book it with <a href=\"https:\/\/wild-wings-safaris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Wings<\/a>. They were terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was our last day on the safari, earlier this month. I shot this video on my Canon, and we&#8217;ll see how that looks on the video player now. I have other videos on my phone, which I&#8217;ll upload in due time. If I&#8217;d left in the natural audio you would hear our tour guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,117,116,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573899138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday","category-memories","category-safari","category-south-africa","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573899138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573899139,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573899138\/revisions\/573899139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573899138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573899138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573899138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}