Walking with elephants……in the rain Another day out in the field….it was home from home…cold and wet today and the guides hated it... everything was wet, but what brightened up my morning those elephants. They walked down to the damn, and were playing in the mud and Tosha was in the water swimming…. How an elephant can make the most of the weather…. Compare that to us trying to keep warm and me battling with soggy paper that I was trying to record da...

The Activity Budget…time to know your elephant! This was the first activity budget I did today; I recorded Tosha as the previous volunteer had done all the elephants except her. It was a day witch really made me smile, I was out in the field with just the guides there to help me, you always have to be with a guide when you’re in the field. I learnt so much from watching Tosha today; I learnt about elephants but also myself, as I straight away new I would fin...

Each day begins at 6.30 when the elephants are prepared to go out to the field; from there we are time tabled to do different things throughout the day. This included, helping in the boma; helping the boma guys clean out the enclosures, preparing the milk for Mashudu and Thato the volunteers become there mum! To then helping with alien invasive removal; pulling out plants which are not native to the area, helping with vegetation surveys, maintenance work, cleanin...

Knysna Elephant Park! At 6.30 am it is an elephant that I start my day with, walking out with them into the field as the sun begins to rise, meeting more of the guides seeing the park and being out in the field! Watching the cheeky glint in Mashudu and Thato the two babies’ and then to bottle feed them milk every 2 hours throughout the day. We walked with the elephants and watched there training, today was orientation day and to get a feel for the park. The ...

The touch of an elephant, The elephants…..this has been what I have looked forward to the most. The first time I walked into the park at 5.30pm to meet the guides…all new faces who soon will be like my family for the next 4 weeks, then to have the trunk of an elephant touch my hand, I stand in front of 10elephants who light up my face. I was speechless, walking with the elephants for the first time as the sun set, into the boma. It was hard to talk as i wat...