Ready for week two


Can't believe the first week has already gone. I'll be honest and say the first couple of days were a bit tough and I was counting down the sleeps until 5th February (that was mostly due to some issues with some people more than anything else. The research team had been together for 2 weeks before Tom & I joined and it was a bit hard at times to break in to the tight-knit group they had already formed) but now I was loving it and really sad to think I only had 6 more sleeps by this point!


We set off at 6am for another 5 hour game drive. We had 2 vehicles for the research team this morning which was nice as there are usually 7 of us researchers, plus one or two of the co-ordinators, and Anton the guide, so it can be a bit of a squash. We split into 2 groups, one tracking ellies, one on predators. I was with the ellie group this morning.




Best drive ever.


So we set off on an ellie hunt and found them feeding in the bushes. We left them there and decided to hang out at a waterhole that Anton said they would come and drink at. And they did...

Here they come

This one's had too much fun

We sat watching them drink and play for ages until they all got out and started moving on. We had to make swift exit though when Mpatha the dominant bull (the one who charged the photographers last week) decided that we had been there long enough. He suddenly had a little run at us and Anton got us straight out of there. It might only have lasted 10 seconds, but it was a scary 10 seconds with this coming at you like he means business!!

Mpatha giving us a charge