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 gestures and you understand what he is talking about.....in a round about way! :)!!!

We drove round the fences as there was a part of the fence where a gap needed to be filled in, but we had to find it first. Rather wet by the end. However we were luck the weather soon brightened up and after lunch we could set up camp....we were spening the night in tents in the reserve with a fire and bry.....perfect!

Another trip to the rubbish dump... new what to expect today so wasnt as hard to absorb. Then its mashetty time...fair getting the hang of it, however its quite leathel! Driving back to the reserve is awsome, sitting in the back with all the branches with blue skys and attempting to take pictures as we scoot along the road!

The elephants today came right up to us and i was standing in the back of the truck and there trunks came in and yet again there physical presence dominated!

Now theres nothing quite like sitting round a fire with your tents pitched and chatting and watching the sun slowly dissapearing with the songs of the birds in the background. With the black of the sky dominating we bry'd our food and welcomed the heat from the fire. The hundreds of stars that caught your eye as you look up into the night sky.... i love it!

Invistigating the reserve from darkness.....in the truck we drove round, and used a spot light to look out for eyes reflecting back! Rhino, giraff, springbuk, rabbits, ginnyfowl and dieker were on the list of what we spotted.

Into the sleeping bag watching the fire burn itself out, and the stars twinkling... i look forward to waking up with the sun rise tomororw. (i wrote this entry on the 10/9/09;quite tricky to be having a computer when camping)