Today was a 6.45 start, prepared the elephant food got them out there enclosures and helped to clean out the whole enclosure floor...every thursday all the saw dust gets removed and the floors washed and disinfected, every other day, the dung gets taken out and the branches that are left from the elphants feeding the previous night.

The contents of the floor is shuveled into one large pile, the rest is then brushed into the pile, the tractor and trailer comes and it is then shuvled into the trailer. A ride on the trailer followed...this being sitting on the contents...we had bags to sit on! this was then emtied by hand onto areas of tracks that are very sandy, it helps vehicles to grip and it was phrased- It came from nature so we put it back to nature..no waist.

Breakfast next, followed by getting the last load of elephant saw-dust/dung mix, to the track with munto-who only speeks african;however by the ed of the morning he new what thumbs up meant and i now undertsnad your meant to ignore him when he asks you to take a picture of him; he know wants the picture and every time i see him he dose an impretion of a camera!

The 3 of us(me and my fellow volunteers;spanish couple) along with munto were to fill the trailer with clip's (stones/rocks in african) by hand! To then take the load and emty it by hand into metal cages which are part of the bridge we are helping to build. This was done twice...hard work in the heat!

Now i never expected this... we had 2 hours to relax at the lodge swimming pool, where the guests pay to stay at.

Then shooting practice, first shot at using one of the guns, we shot at a turmite nest to get used to it, more tomorrow!

The day ended with feeding the 2 elephants!

Touch wood;no snakes yet!, Have seen alot of plants that have adapted to the conditions, very dry, alot of plants with the characteristics of coping with these conditions, small fleshy leaves, alot of plants with very large thorns also. One plant in particular is abundant hear and its of the cactus family, it has alovera extracted from it, hein said he is going to take us to the factory where this happens.

Oh and i had my first cup of south african tea yeasterday, roobios is the national tea hear i am told, currently having a second cup right now, i had it balck yesterday tonight with milk, its growing on me. Not resorted to my tetly stock as of yet.