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Up at 6.40am. Good job we got an early night! Morning started by having a mini tour of the place. It' amazing how different things are in the light! This place is huge. The biggest rehab centre in SA aparently. So first we got our t-shirts, then got split into small groups to clean enclosures. These were mainly birds (owls, eagles & vultures) but we have to sort the lion's and chui the leopards's water too.
Breakfast - AMAZING. Bacon, mushrooms, egg, potatoes, cereal, fruit, yoghurt, croissants, yum yum yum. So after breakfast we went on a tour. It was the tour that the public go on but it was good. Useful to know the way round a bit.
After the tour we went to get our cameras to take some pictures of the animals, we only got about half way round when we got asked if we would rhino sit for 2 hours. Dela is a 14 month old black rhino who needs fairly constant attention in the day or she gets lonely. She pretty much eats and sleeps. Its best when she sleeps cause it meants we get to too. You have to be careful if she walks towards you though, cause if you don't move she will "nudge" youout of the way - from a rhino that would give you a pretty nice bruise! A sleeping rhinois a pretty cute thing to watch. Not something you get to see every day! In the enclosures around us there were some cheetahs. One enclosure was a mother and two younger cheetahs. it was lovely to watch them playing, pretty amazing. I keep saying these things are amazing cause I know that they are, but already all of this seems so ordinary. Crazy.
So then we went to do our feeding rounds. Then went to see some of the serval cat "kittens" hardly kittens any more. They were pretty cheeky but it was nice when they would walk up and brush against your legs.
Oh I haven't mentioned the lions. They too are lovely, though not so cuddly. Chui the leopard is slightly more cuddly, he comes up the the fence and leans on it for you to stroke him. There are also 2 wilder leopards. Note:DEFINITELY NOT cuddly. Try terrifying.
This evening we went out to another part of moholoholo down the road. It was very nice. The transport though....Don't think I've laughed so much in a while! "the beast" is the nickname for the big safari truck we went in. On the main road it is pretty freeeezing, we sat down on the floor but it was still pretty cold. Funny though!
BUT as a side note, the sky was probably one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Amazing,the stars, you could never imagine so many stars!
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Ben Randall The beast!!!!!