Mahout for the Day!

Happy Australia Day!

Today we had the privilege of visiting Patara Elephant Farm to be Mahouts for the day.... It was FABULOUS. We were paired, according to our personalities to an elephant. I was given an enormous male that was a ga-zillion feet tall with humongous tusks. The first thing they advise you is not to be afraid, I was friggin terrified. You then have to feed your elephant, brush your elephant, wash your elephant, walk your elephant and make sure you don't fall of your elephant!

After meeting our elephant we had to feed him or her to see if they liked us.

 Emily had a lovely small female elephant.

 This one is 18 months old and followed us the whole day. She was hilarious and really naughty...

 Tom brushing his elephant

Now into the river for a wash.

See the baby just beside Tom, she kept swimming around everywhere. You constantly had to pull your legs up out of her way....

  And we're off.....

Late in the afternoon when both us and the elephants were exhausted they asked if we would like to see their latest editions. Two baby elephants, one just 6 day's old and the other 4 week's old. We decided we could spare the time LOL  

This baby girl is just 6 days old and she was still 'wobbly' on her feet.....   

This is the 4 week old baby boy.....