Thato and Mashudu Recording the elephants is such a nice project as I get to spend the day with them I now am beginning to pick up on relationships between elephants and see there different characteristics. Thato is one of the orphans and her relationship with Mashudu is so nice to watch there pare of them are so cheeky and play all the time…which makes my job of recording interactions very difficult because of how many there are. Yesterday I recorded Thato an...

Riding an elephant! Monday morning…. Misty and cold…. Normally not a good start to the week but a great start to my week, this morning the guides were riding the elephants which meant the 5 of us could also ride with them! To ride an elephant is something quite special, to start my day on an elephant. To sit and to see what they see as the walk in single file in front and behind each other, there thick thick skin, and the silence in the air as I try to take ...

A day with no power… Sunday the whole of Knysna had no power today so it was a volunteer walk which started as a walk to the beach, along the way we stopped at a market where all people were selling all there hand made goods. It’s very special what some people can make, they always want to bargin with you, as soon as you walk near there things they come straight up to you asking you what you’d like to by. From there we walked but instead of heading to the ...

Discovery of new places and new experiences….time for another road trip! We headed to Oudtshoorn today; finally I was able to see some caves. Before the caves, we went to an ostridge farm for a tour; it was a very strange experience…. Of course it was time to be a tourist, we got told all about the birds, about their biology, how there farmed what there feathers can be used for etc. Then to see some of the birds, and the opportunity to ride on one…. As I w...

Friday is bryday! A very mixed day at the park today, with data, fruit etc but my smile was there as we left the park for the weekend’s adventures! So Friday night, now that I am in Knysna, me and the other volunteers are all at the volunteers house, and there are various places to go out to which will soon be discovered over the next few weeks I am sure. A very important part of travelling somewhere alone is you really need to grasp everything new, meeting ne...