Day 6
We have class today. On a bleedin Saturday! Learning all the theory that hopefully we can utilise in practice on our guided tours. There is a massive amount to learn so we’ll be putting our heads down big time and studying. We had breakfast this morning and I asked the girl what the brown dish was and I thought she said maize so I thought I’d try it. I got stuck into it but thought the taste was familiar. It turned out to be minced meat!! I can tell you that’s a first. It’s like having a Big Mac with your coffee and cornflakes. Not bad though and it’ll keep me goin till lunch!!
I’m starting to decipher the different bird calls now as well so that’s a good sign. Back home there isn’t much variation to the tunes being sung by the birds. It’s a cacophony over here. Gotta do a presentation on a Hyena next week. Have to go out and find one and observe it’s behaviour. That should be interesting. I’ve always thought they were sly little f*ckers but after reading into it they’re a little bit more complicated than that. Should be interesting. I have to admire the guys on the course who don’t have English as their first language. It’s gonna be mighty tough for them. Some of the guys are English speaking but I can’t make out what they’re saying half the time like my room mate Matt. Jaysus and I thought I was guilty of muttering a lot!
Went up the road to the Kruger National Park. It’s about a ten minute drive up to the Orpen Gate entrance. We didn’t expect to see anything worth noting and I guess it’s always the way when we stumbled across 3 male elephants. They are absolutely massive. One male and two adolescents. They were making light work of a big Acacia tree. It’s amazing how peaceful they are. Not a sound from the three of them for the whole time that we were watching. Even when they moved off it’s as if they were tip toeing away out of embarrassment! I got a few great shots of them and of a beautiful male Kudo on the way back. All I’ll say is savage! I’ll post pictures soon so you can see what I’m on about.
We have class today. On a bleedin Saturday! Learning all the theory that hopefully we can utilise in practice on our guided tours. There is a massive amount to learn so we’ll be putting our heads down big time and studying. We had breakfast this morning and I asked the girl what the brown dish was and I thought she said maize so I thought I’d try it. I got stuck into it but thought the taste was familiar. It turned out to be minced meat!! I can tell you that’s a first. It’s like having a Big Mac with your coffee and cornflakes. Not bad though and it’ll keep me goin till lunch!!
I’m starting to decipher the different bird calls now as well so that’s a good sign. Back home there isn’t much variation to the tunes being sung by the birds. It’s a cacophony over here. Gotta do a presentation on a Hyena next week. Have to go out and find one and observe it’s behaviour. That should be interesting. I’ve always thought they were sly little f*ckers but after reading into it they’re a little bit more complicated than that. Should be interesting. I have to admire the guys on the course who don’t have English as their first language. It’s gonna be mighty tough for them. Some of the guys are English speaking but I can’t make out what they’re saying half the time like my room mate Matt. Jaysus and I thought I was guilty of muttering a lot!
Went up the road to the Kruger National Park. It’s about a ten minute drive up to the Orpen Gate entrance. We didn’t expect to see anything worth noting and I guess it’s always the way when we stumbled across 3 male elephants. They are absolutely massive. One male and two adolescents. They were making light work of a big Acacia tree. It’s amazing how peaceful they are. Not a sound from the three of them for the whole time that we were watching. Even when they moved off it’s as if they were tip toeing away out of embarrassment! I got a few great shots of them and of a beautiful male Kudo on the way back. All I’ll say is savage! I’ll post pictures soon so you can see what I’m on about.
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