Gin and Tonic

John said: "Any fool can be uncomfortable"
Ant added to this piece of wisdom: "You don't have to be smart to do without."
We did not want to do without, if we could help it.
Therefore, Ant, our friend and Safari Guide, had brought along:
1 Refrigerator box with ice cube tray
1 battery
2 solar panels
At any opportunity, the solar panels were placed appropriately and connected to the battery.
Once fully charged, the battery was connected to the refrigerator
and the refrigerator was then filled with meats and other spoilable food,
but always, always leaving enough space for a couple of bottles of good South African wines
and the best available Gin and some tonic water.
So, this way, we never ha to "do without" the important stuff.

One beautiful day, we almost came a cropper, since an Elephant 
took an intense interest into our two sensitive solar panels. 
Had he succeeded in damaging them, it would have been 
the end, not necessarily of our Safari, but certainly of some properly cooled wine and some ice cold Gin and Tonic.
And how, pray tell, can you conduct a civilized Safari without cool wines and without ice cold G & T ?
You cannot !
Therefore, Ant got into the cruiser and, blowing its horn in intervals, edged closer and closer to the thick skinned Elephant
until this one got the message, that his presence was not wanted here.

He has lived here for many a year,

but he has never seen the like of this.

Shoo - Shoo -

Get lost !

Leave our solar panels alone !

Slowly "Jumbo" decides that whatever these things are, 

they are not eatable,

and he moves along, in search of better stuff.