Rifle exams

This week consised of a lot of game drives and our ARH (Advanced Rifle Handling) assessments.

Monday was a game drive in the morning. It was a fairly quiet drive, but we did get a fantastic close viewing of a big male Lion, who was just chilling under a tree. The afternoon we again had placement talks, to check what we were interested in doing.

Tuesday we started our ARH, our group was up in the morning, where I managed to both drop a bullet in my first part of the assessment, pass the second part and completely miss the targets in the third part-unfortunately I didnt manage to get my basic Rifle Handling, let along my ARH. The afternoon was spent on another game drive, where we saw the Rhinos at night, we had been tracking them most of the afternoon and only managed to bump into them on the way home in the dark-lovely to see nontheless.

Wednesday we had another game drive in the morning, where we again didnt see much, but are getting some good practice at identifying trees and getting our basics down for our assessment drives. In the afternoon we had another go at getting our ARH, and this time I managed to do even worse, passed the first part, but then couldnt hit the target with my third bullet in the second part-again I missed out on my ARH.

Thursday we had game drives in the morning, doing more tree ID, and basics. Once again, not a whole lot was seen. The afternoon we chose not to go on our game drive, but instead study as we were had to go to town on Friday to apply for our PDP's and therefore would miss out on a lot of our study.

Friday was spent entirely in town, arriving about 8.30 and sitting at the traffic centre all day, finally getting out about 3.30, and racing round to do our shopping for the week off, before heading back to camp, getting back about 6.

After the test on Saturday we started our week off, the rest of the Saturday was spent being lazy, and then Sunday I started doing some work to finish my workbook off and begin my revision for our final FGASA exam, practical assessment drive and Birding exam.

Monday, Tuesday and today have also been spent as lazy mornings and study in the afternoon and often late into the night-as will the rest of the week, not the most enjoyable week off I have had, but neccissary.

A moth decided my leg was the best place to sit, and it was huge so we wanted photos of it

Beautiful Male lion

Some of the smaller animals-Dungbeetle