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The first time I saw an elephant outside of an enclosure I was incompetently riding around Ko Samui on a motorbike. This was my second time on a bike. Though encouraged I hadn’t crashed into a stationary milk float this time I found working down the gears difficult and needed a runway longer than that required by a 747 to come to a halt.
The thing about elephants is they are quite big. Despite plenty of warning from first sighting the animal in the distance to actually stopping I still perhaps got a tad too close.
I was behind it by the time it got further away again, so all I got was a shot of its arse.
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This piece was first published in an older version of our blog which included the following comments:
Dayna said: “I would love to hear a blog post about crashing into a milk float! I like that you post ‘bad’ travel photos too… sometimes those are the most memorable.”
– we replied: “Perhaps I will. I’ll combine it with the unplanned wheelie that sent Deirdre rolling backwards down a hill.”
