Another early morning run around the perimeter saw me get a savage scare by a Daikur that hangs around the college. I didn’t see it as I was merrily jogging my way around the Eastern side of the college. It probably in fairness got more of a fright than me but at 6 in the morning I can tell you it had the appearance of something a lot more sinister in my eyes!! Anyway I’ve gotta laugh about it now and I got some adrenalin buzz from the shock.
We were in class today learning about most people’s favourite animal NOT snakes. Very interesting to learn about the different venoms or toxins they use to kill prey items. We will be running into a lot of these snakes over the coming months as things start to warm up. They are all in burrows and termite mounds at the moment waiting until it heats up a bit more. We need to be keeping our eyes peeled for them when that happens. Oh we had our group photo this morning which was great. We were all looking mega sharp in our khaki uniforms. It’s gas all the shirts that the lads bought would hang themselves up they’re so heavy duty. We feel a bit more like guides anyway. Appearances can be deceiving some times!
We headed out to the greater Timbavati reserve after lunch for a night drive which was cool. We saw some Elephants again and some Hippo and Crocodile. The Saangaan guys in our group are very knowledgeable about the bush. I guess it’s like me showing them around Dublin. They grew up with all these animals so I guess they’d want to know their stuff. They’re good craic to be around as well and are generally happy types. There’s even one guy who reminds me of Pete. He’s always late so I’ve called him Mr Ten Past. He has also picked up some Dublin lingo like Alright Bud and Story Bud. Pretty funny, and he’ll get great mileage out of it if he gets any guests from Dublin later on.
We still haven’t seen any big Cats yet and we are beginning to wonder have we just been unlucky as some of the other guys at the college have walked into area’s where they’ve seen Leopard and cubs, Lion, Buffalo and Bull Elephant. My fingers are crossed for tomorrow morning. It’s an early start. We are ready to go at 5.30 so another early night in store……………..
We were in class today learning about most people’s favourite animal NOT snakes. Very interesting to learn about the different venoms or toxins they use to kill prey items. We will be running into a lot of these snakes over the coming months as things start to warm up. They are all in burrows and termite mounds at the moment waiting until it heats up a bit more. We need to be keeping our eyes peeled for them when that happens. Oh we had our group photo this morning which was great. We were all looking mega sharp in our khaki uniforms. It’s gas all the shirts that the lads bought would hang themselves up they’re so heavy duty. We feel a bit more like guides anyway. Appearances can be deceiving some times!
We headed out to the greater Timbavati reserve after lunch for a night drive which was cool. We saw some Elephants again and some Hippo and Crocodile. The Saangaan guys in our group are very knowledgeable about the bush. I guess it’s like me showing them around Dublin. They grew up with all these animals so I guess they’d want to know their stuff. They’re good craic to be around as well and are generally happy types. There’s even one guy who reminds me of Pete. He’s always late so I’ve called him Mr Ten Past. He has also picked up some Dublin lingo like Alright Bud and Story Bud. Pretty funny, and he’ll get great mileage out of it if he gets any guests from Dublin later on.
We still haven’t seen any big Cats yet and we are beginning to wonder have we just been unlucky as some of the other guys at the college have walked into area’s where they’ve seen Leopard and cubs, Lion, Buffalo and Bull Elephant. My fingers are crossed for tomorrow morning. It’s an early start. We are ready to go at 5.30 so another early night in store……………..
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