Areena giraffe eating Eastern Cape thorn trees for breakfast

This giraffe at Areena Riverside Resort is still young, but already so tall, and is enjoying lovely dark green leaves for breakfast.  The green leaves are amongst the thorns of the sweet thorn acacia thorn tree which grow all over the Eastern Cape.  Acacia sweet thorn trees also make for wonderful bonsai trees. Imagine your own collection of little thorn tree bonsai trees in your own garden, whether you live in the countryside or not. These thorn trees blossom with beautiful puffy yellow blossoms once a year.  It's a wonderful sight to view yellow (thorn tree blossoms), green (thorn trees), and blue (lovely blue skies) all over the countryside at certain times of the year - then, just add a giraffe or two, and you have the perfect countryside.  This giraffe at Areena is fairly tame and you can go right up to it and pet it.  One only really gets the full idea of how tall a giraffe really is when one is standing right next to a giraffe, stroking its head.