Back into the work week and assigned cleaning of the elephant bomas (where the ellies sleep) before breakfast. Man these guys have big poos! Joining George and Crispin (the handlers) to herd them through the bush to the park for their breakfast of vegetable scraps. Today is the first day since being here that we've had cloud cover, making it very fresh. C'mon sun come out. Up to the breeding program for cleaning and fresh water, well that was if the key hadn't...

Sunday, the day of rest. No scheduled activities today and a chance to catch up on laundry ready for getting down and dirty again this week. A day of chilling out listening to music, reading and soaking up the sunshine overlooking the river. Tough! Time to get moving after my lazy day with a walk with Penya and Paza who were equally as lazy after a big feed of cow. It was a bit tough for them to walk with their well rounded bellies, lying down at any opportuni...

One week down and off to the main town in Gweru, for a look around and get some alcohol supplies. With only an hour to have a quick look around, thankfully not too much to see, we strolled through a small market that sold mostly clothes and shoes, and nic nacs for the locals. Our main stop was the OK supermarket for supplies. Grabbing a box of goon to enjoy around the camp fire at night and supplies for the boys orphanage. We visited the Rose Dale orphanage fo...

Africa Day! A recognised public holiday, not sure of the history of it, will have to google it. I could not make a decision this morning, either spend the morning painting the newly built classrooms at Mickey Mouse early childhood school or participate in monitoring lions while they are darted and have bloods drawn? I would love to do the monitoring but majority of the other volunteers were also keen, given that there were only 6 lions to monitor I assumed that ...

Absolutely exhausted last night after our 6 and 2 hour walks with the cubs yesterday, I slept like a log and was able to have wee lie in starting horse feeding from 7am. An easy morning and felt more in the way and a hindrance than actually helping. Getting over my nerves and anxiousness of getting on a horse again, especially since the last time I feel off, a group of us had a riding lesson. Dear old placid Jacko was my boy about 18 years old and perfect to rid...