Today....next week- speechless!

Sitting out having breakfast as the sun starts to climb into the sky :)!

Today we started at 8, :)!!!;the elephants! Feeding, then watching them walk out their enclosures! An hour later, branches were out both enclosures and put outside for burning, dung was wheel barrowed out, and saw dust leveled out again.

Onto the next job, helping with the brigde again, what wer are doing is filling metal rectangular cages with rocks to redirect the river, when it rises, so far two cages are complete two more will be made and then the area beside it on the track concreeted. Today was 2 loads of stones again, the trailer gets filled and emptied all by hand...hard work. The metal cages were not holding the wait so all the work yesterday had to be undone, stones were moved and taken out so we could had wire supports into the cages, then we filled them up again.!

Thiswas done with 5 other workers, it is nice to speek with them and learn about there culture, and lives (sometimes its hard with the language but it makes it more interesting) listening to them talk in african; a whole new experience!

We had a long lunch and at 3 hein came to get us......meant to be going to alovera factory where we get a tour and explanation of the process;the plants are abundant in the area. It didnt quite turn out to be an afternoon in the factory. For nearly a month hey have been trying to dart and tranfere a zebra but havent had a chance or enough people at the right time....but today....the zebra was darted and tranfered...we were part of it! I injected the de wormer into the zebra before it woke up and jabby and monza(fellow volunteers) also injected 2 oher drugs.! It happend very fast and the zebra made it difficult by running into the valley into a bush before falling down! But it was very succesfull once complete, watching it waken up.....it lies there.....then out of know where it pops up and runs to join the 3 other zebra in this area!.....Speachless!. Patrick took pictures of each of us injecting the zebra we should get them tomorow!

Hein then let us use the same riffle he used to dart the zebra, we were being taught about the types of darts they can use and the types of gun, we had a blank dart to shoot at a blanket which was our target.

5 o clock;elephant time! :):) Food prepared, at 5.30 the elephants come into their enclosures for the night! We waited for there branches to come...bo jackson (they eat the leaves and bark of this bush) once they arived we put them in the enclosures with the elephants........passing an elephant a branch as its trunk curls round it to take it from you!

This was another day complete, however i like to sit and watch the elephants for 15 minutes at the end of each day and talk to harison or inist who look after them!:)!

Tonight we had a bry, open fire and bbq chicken over it with fire bread! Looking at the full moon and clear sky's! Almost had my food pinched by one of the 2 very friendly springbok who came into the garden....one of the dogs happily chased it round and round!

Perfect evening, talked to hein and next weeks plans :):):)!!!!!!!!!(i will keep them as a surprise to tell you after each day!

Acording to munto who we do the rocks with, i now drink power juice(my water), him smoking is his power juice!