Well this is where I am for my 5 weeks in South Africa. It’s very close to the borders with Zimbabwe and Botswana.
I’ve spent my first week here doing my training on how to track the animals in the reserve. Lots of very early starts and it’s strange to be going to bed between 8 and 9 but when you are leaving around 5am …
Not seen too many animals yet but this will change tomorrow when we start our work properly. Did some tests yesterday which started with a written exam at 06:00 !!
Over the next 4 weeks I will be tracking lions, elephants, jackals and wild dogs and we have to spot them and record their behaviour before we can come back to the camp. So we’ve got some very long hot days to come as they could be anywhere in 34,000 hectares.
Today is our 1 rest day a week and I’ve got a town visit today. At a place called Musina \ Messina. Will be collecting the weeks shopping for the camp and will also get a nice lunch. I won’t come back to town for at least 2 weeks.
I’ll try and get some pictures uploaded in the meantime of what it’s like here as well soon.
