It’s not always the last time, It’s very strange when you’ve been so buisy for 8 weeks and then you can take it easier, but for me that is quite difficult. On Monday I spent most of the day in town and found out I could go to Addo again for 3 days on Wednesday!! So on Tuesday I was able to go back to the park again as I had quite a bit still to finish so it was so nice to be back for the day! When somewhere is like your home for so long it’s very hard...

The last weekend at the volunteer house… Friday was the boys last night in South Africa so we had a lot of fun, we said goodbye yesterday and have had a really quiet weekend. This last 8 weeks….. Wow! I’m no longer an Edge of Africa volunteer! My projects are officially finished! But I don’t think i am ready for them to be finished just yet, it’s been an incredible 2 months of my adventure. What I have learnt has been something incredible, I have tak...

Walking up at 3…an African sunrise….with elephants I wanted to do some night time observations and I was told 3-6 was a good time, as it was my last night I didn’t mind being tired. The stars were amazing at 3 they stood out perfectly as I walked to the boma. I sat and watched the elephants recording anything that may be interesting in terms of there behaviour, the sun begun to rise at 5 am it was so perfect as I watched the light come in the boma and the ...

The beginning of my last week…. I recorded the last elephant I needed to complete an Activity Budget for on Monday which was nice as I can now look at all the graphs and help to see if we will trial a new method of collecting the data. It dose not seem that long ago that I recorded my first elephant and now I have done them all. Yesterday was quite changeable as some of the elephants were getting filmed for a TV advert, filming is going on all week. So the day...

Southern Wright Whales The weekend was really nice, Saturday was quiet but today we went to Plettenburgbaii, we went on a boat trip to see the whales, there were 6 whales in front of us, to see there size as they come up to the surface and then when they dive down and you sea there tail…its incredible! We had a really nice couple of hours out on the water we saw hundreds of seals and had such a nice view of Plett. We spent the afternoon at the beach and going ...