Monday was spend cleaning up the camp after our week off, and then we were taken out on a "Guest" game drive by our trainers to give us an idea on how to run ours for our assessments. We spent quite a while watching dung beetles rolling their dung balls around, then found the elephants and had a lovely time watching them and being surrounded by them. As we were heading home we then found 4 young lions attempting to hunt, and followed them around for quite a while-one of the best game drives I have been on!
Tuesday was spend studying in the morning as and then we hosted Team A in a bush dinner. Considering what we have available to us, it was absolutely beautiful and they really enjoyed it.
Wednesday I headed out on a bush walk with two of the trainers and another student, and we were blessed with finding some elephants again, and getting to watch them for about 45 minutes on foot, but from high up on the river bank as well as up close as we crossed the river. We also tracked and tried to find a lioness on foot but to no avail, but did see th remains of a kill. The afternoon was then spent on a game drive, not a lot was seen this time, but it was great to practice what we are going to have to do on our assessments.
Thursday I again headed out on a morning game drive, where we saw a lot of birds, and I got a much better idea on where I would like to go on my assessment, now I just need to be able to navigate it without getting lost-that should be fun particularly once it gets dark! The afternoon was then spent studying, in preperation for our birding test we had on Saturday.
Friday was a long day of study of birds, ID's and Calls, we have a list of 160 birds we need to be able to ID by sight, and 100 to ID by sound, so it was a cramp session trying to learn as many bird calls as possible ready for our test.
Saturday morning was spent doing bird IDing the visual ID wasnt too bad, but the calls all just sound the same, so didnt go so well. Being just before Halloween we then dressed up (or at least the girls did) and we all headed up to the local bar at the neighbouring reserve to have some fun. A lot of people had dressed up and we all had a great night.
Today it is back to the books, in preperation for my big final exam on Friday
Bush Dinner
Watching Elephants
Watching Elephants
Elephants
Bush Dinner
Dung Beetle
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