‘THIS WAS HIS HAPPY PLACE’
HE COULDN’T understand why his son wasn’t answering his phone. They’d scheduled a 9.30am video call so it was strange that he wasn’t responding.
Maybe something had come up at the private lodge in Limpopo where Sheldon Hooper worked as a field guide, his dad, Gordon, decided.
Still, he had an uneasy feeling and so he dialled his son’s number again.
What he didn’t realise was that hundreds of kilometres away, his son’s phone was lying on the ground, ringing, while Sheldon was hanging on to life by a thread.
Moments later Gordon’s whole world imploded as his wife, Cindy (47), burst into his home office.
“Sheldon’s been attacked by an elephant,”
