Pretty big day! Woken up in the early hours by one of the menagery of animals living here. Freaked out, heard loud hoiking noises so got up and looked under my bed to find Benji the dog. This place is cat and dog paradise. Had to basically drag him out and while I was doing that the ginger cat tried sneaking into our room. Back to sleep for a couple of hours after realising that desipite having only four hours of sleep over the previous 24 hours we were both just too excited to sleep.
Went out on a drive around the reserve in the back of a ute, accompanied by Mutley the cute tripod dog (he lost his fourth leg to a zebra - no not a carnivorous zebra but onewho stomped on his leg). What a ride! after getting the bugs out from our teeth we got to see Sprinbok, Wilderbeasts, Blessbok (like Springboks but with white faces) and ostriches, a cool yellow bird with a long neck, bright yellow (very butter) butterflies, and other types of cool birds. Then it started raining so we headed back for lunch. Doug was thrilled there was heaps of bacon.
We went out again in the afternoon and this time we saw zebras, impala, eland, hartebeast, blue wilderbeast and last but not least giraffes! And a brand new baby giraffe, the very first baby giraffe that the reserve has had! We got pretty close. We also visited the vulture's restaurant - a landscape of bones and flies. There were weaver bird nests everwhere and bright blue dragon flies hanging around.
Then the ute broke down and we had to walk. Along the way I saw a dung beetle! And got to pick it up off the road and 'rehome' it safely in the bushes. Also picked up a porcupine quill. Rather cool.
And that was today, we'll be getting started on some work tomorrow, probably helping build a fence to capture in the new part of the enclosure.
Francoise
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