I don't like living in the past so I absolutely loved it. I've travelled a lot and that was my lifetime experience.
'Mind you I was so rooted to the spot in fear that I probably couldn't have run even if I had wanted to. 'I've got to give my wife credit that she didn't panic and run and even managed to video the action. Happy ending: The newly married couple pose at sunset in Kruger Park 'He was as cool a cucumber confronting a charging bull that looked really mad with us. And what impressed me is that Dean didn't raise his rifle once. 'With his right arm raised Dean was loudly commanding the elephant and it backed off. His front feet dug into the ground in a cloud of dust. It looked like something out of a cartoon. He put his arm up and yelled 'Whoooa!' and about 10 metres away the elephant stopped dead in its tracks. 'Straight away Dean had moved forward and become the target. Mr Larsen continued: 'Dean our lead guide said, 'Don't move!', so we stood there frozen in terror as the elephant charged down the hill at us. 'We stopped immediately admired it and then suddenly it charged us.'
'After about an hour-and-a-half we came out of forest and looked up and about 100 metres away saw an elephant at the top of a little hill. Fortunately the guides had drilled it into our heads that if anything happens, don't run, don't run! 'But we could never have imagined how it would turn out. 'We'd been very lucky on our first walking safari soon after we arrived when we saw lion, leopard and hyena and found it so exhilarating that we wanted to do it again on our last day,' Mr Larsen explains. Abort mission: A visibly miffed elephant was then seen throwing sand around before walking off from the couple and their guides
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