Royal Enfield Urban Safari: Exotic Beasts and a Surprise Giraffe!
Channel: Mercia Moto
Date: 2023-07-26

On a previous evenings ride out, we chanced upon, and subsequently forgot the location of, an elephant wearing a skeleton costume. The Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 was my chosen bike for thia adventure as we went in search of our prey. 

This was an opportunity to good to miss. So, Inspired by The All Year Motorcyclist @TAYM and his quest to track down the lesser spotted giraffes dotted around the UK and beyond, Big Paul adopted the role of carer and chaperoned us on an evening Safari Ride Out to search out exotic wild animals, including some extinct ones in the wilds of the Serengeti… sorry I mean Worcestershire and the Black Country!
 
Our first encounter with exotic beasts involved chancing once again upon the elephant in skeleton fancy dress standing majestically by the side of the road. We pulled over took some pictures to share with our friends and family (whether they want em or not) before heading further into the Savanah lands on the Kidderminster / Bromsgrive border. This is where we came across a watering hole filled with alligators and hippo's cooling off and basking in the evening sunshine! Cautiously we pulled over and took a couple of snaps (pun intended) taking care not to startle these beasts, not sure there was any need to fear as they were a lot smaller than we had expected, and the crocodiles pearly white teeth were most impressive, couldn't see any carrion flesh stuck between them, clearly flossed on a regular basis. Whilst capturing pictures of our prey, Big Paul and Little Paul engaged in a discussion about the size of 'Dave's pole' but this is family channel so we'll just leave that conversation for another day!
 
Back on the bikes we headed into what can only be described by us locals as; 'Bandit Country' AKA Colley Gate where we'd been reliably informed King Kong had been spotted intimidating passing motorists, fortunately we discovered that King Kong was in fact full of hot air (literally) so there was little risk of our being attacked as we stopped to take pictures of him and the bikes. Next stop was Dudley (twinned with Jurassic Park) where us intrepid adventurers tracked down King Kong's younger brother accompanied by three dinosaurs and two herons who had set up a commune in someone's front garden!
 
We had an unexpected finale to the Safari when Joe announced to us that he knew the whereabouts of a giraffe! Yes, a giraffe! Barely able to contain our excitement we were back on the bikes and on the hunt for our prey, an actual giraffe, which has now been elevated to mythical status by the work of The All Year Motorcyclist and sure enough there it was just up the road from Quarry Bonk standing proudly by the side of the road staring majestically down upon passing motorists! Well this was an opportunity not to be missed so Big Paul, Little Paul and myself manoeuvred ourselves into suitable posing position to photograph ourselves and the bikes in the presence of this magnificent specimen. However, although Joe advised us of the whereabouts of the giraffe he didn't join us for the photo opportunity. In fact we thought that he had strategically positioned himself at a suitable distance away from us to act as lookout and provide us with an early warning if police showed up to move us on or arrest us for trespass! However on reflection we concluded that Joe was most likely maintaining a strategic distance away from us because he was embarrassed and disgusted by our infantile behaviour!
 
Having bagged our prize of the giraffe, metaphorically not literally, it was time to head home through the barren lands of Cradley Heath and purely by coincidence, as Joe turned off to head home alone, we encountered a police car on blues and two's speeding toward the direction from whence we had come! Little Paul concluded that they were in pursuit of 'four blokes on motorbikes seen trying to nick a giraffe in Quarry Bonk!' Due to the timing of Joe's departure and purely coincidental arrival of the police, coupled with Joe's disdain for our childish behaviour, could he have dobbed us in to plod? Who knows…

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