Chris and I are spending the day in the 'local' internet cafe - which has taken us about an hour to drive to... so we will tryour best to fill you in on our past couple of weeks. After 2 test papers and one presentation each, Chris and I are enjoying a well earned day off. We are getting used to camp life - the first few days were a culture shock and with the visitation of a lovely Solifuge on the fourth night I was ready for packing my bags... (click the word if you want a look!!!) But after the incident, I am slowly getting used to the number of spiders etc, not liking it, but trying to accept it... To get onto the more fun things... the 5am daily wake up! From this we leave the camp at 5:30 either going for a 3.5 hour hike or game drive. Yesterday morning we got to see a leopard up quite close - one of only 4 in the entire 8000 htr park and then we got some good pictures of the cheetah with her two cubs. We then return for breakfast at 10am and then we have a daily lecture between 11 - 12:30. We're learning a lot of really interesting things and it is actually quite good fun! After this, we have free time until 3:30 when it's lunch time. Free time is used to either study, play volleyball, sunbath or more importantly, to sleep!!! Finally we got for either a drive or a walk in the afternoon (alternating from what you did that morning) and dinner is at 7:30pm. We are also getting used to being constantly hot - the weather hardly cools down and even this morning at 5am I was in shorts and t- shirt. The game drives are brilliant fun with us all taking to the wheel and putting the tracker into the bushes (they sit at the very front left hand side of the vehicle, above the headlights!!!) but the possibility of coming across some Giraffes, White Rhino and all the other species about the park is exciting. Here are some of the photos so far...
Two Hippos clashing
Zero the Lion eating his kill - a young giraffe
Two Hippos clashing
Zero the Lion eating his kill - a young giraffe
The majority of the herd of Elephants at Karongwe - so many sizes.
Back in 2+ weeks!!!
1 comment:
Those are great pictures! I don't think the solifuge spider would have been top of "my afaid of" list, (although looking at the picture of it, it has moved up the list a few places!-What size web does that creature spin?!) It would be the bigger animals that would top my list (especially those you can't outrun in your best trainers)- that would have me extremely worried.
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