The night sky! I now gues you know the routine, elephants first thing, cleaning the enclosure, which is not that bad atoll. It gets you warmed up...a chilly morning! It got even colder as we went with munta to finish planting the little tree's another cold front was over the area, so just like planting trees at home, cold wet and muddy... but good fun as munta never seases to make me laugh as he talks african's while chucking in a few english words using hand g...

Home from home! The elephant enclosures were cleaned up super fast today, by 9 oclock it was all done! First main task today was with patrick! In the truck, with munta and andre and the three of us. Monza and i were in the fornt with patrick and the other thre outside in the back. We drove to a farm where there was a dead cow we needed to pick up....this was to take back to give to the lions. Em i wouldnt say it was the most pleasant of experiences, the cow die...

It's not until you see something that is right infront of you, that you fully experience it! An 8 oclock start, cleaning the elephants enclosures, becoming a routine. Once complete, helping to pick up the branches round about outside as seen in the picture! They get burned and the bigger bits kept used for fire wood. Nothing better than just hopping in the back of the truck and of we go, load up with branches and sit on top of them as we go to unload! Feeding ...

There are over 100,000 muscles in an elephants trunk...! There's alot you can learn in a short space of time, one of hundreds of new things i have learnt! Today i was emailing and reading some of the books we have access to! I am going to look at the vegetation that is on the reserve as a littel project for the week if i get the time. There are several types of aloes...i will learn alot about them when we go to the factory. In south africa there are 125 species...

You can learn from every experience you have. This weekend i choose to stay hear at the reserve rather than go o a weekend trip with jabby and monza. Watched the rugby this afternoon;eating billtong and drinking coke and enjoyed the sunshine once again...as i would normaly say....it was just smashing! A game drive followed! I wanted to see what the reserve was like from a tourist's perspective. I was joined by 8 poeple who were staying at the lodge and our gui...