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Published: March 24th 2007
Greetings!
So i've got alot to get through in this entry! It'll have to be brief. We've now finished the project phase, but since my last entry, we've been working on two different game reserves, Mbuluzi and Hlane. We were first at Mbuluzi, doing a game ranger course (for which I have a rather snazzy certificate). Then we were at Hlane, which is the royal national park. Here we were trail blazing, which involved cutting a walking trail through the reserve next to a hippo and croc infested lake (SAFETY...!!). Hlane was cool the manager is a nutter, catcing snakes, taking us swimming in a river (prior to which he poked around it with stick to check for crocs...) hehe. I also found me some diamonds in this river! shhh. After Hlane we returned to Mbuluzi where we did giraffe surveys, i named one FLEUR! We also did parthenium surveys which is this weed which is taking over from grass in some parts of the reserve and it's bad cos the animals cant eat it ..... sounds weird but was very interesting! We also built a bird hide! So the last 4 weeks has been pretty jam-packed!
SO notable exciting things that have happened....I aided (sort of) in the release of a captured 3.5 metre croc at Hlane, proper steve irwin style! not even joking! - they thought it was the one which killed a woman recently, really sad actually. But it wasnt the right one...bummer. So yeah the crocs here are a bit mean....but i havent been eaten yet so thats ok. I also saw the king! There was a royal marula festival, marula is a fruit here that is really celebrated and they make a beer out of it and a drink you may have heard of, 'amarula' (kind of like baileys). Anyway we went to this and sat near the king! very exciting! Caught his eye a few times woo.
Sorry this has been a bit of a flying entry - running out of internet time! So yeah we're technically on the expedition now, start the 4 day trek in Malalotja reserve on monday, then off to mozambique for some beachy goodness!! Wish me luck for tonight i'm learning how to do african drumming at that 'house on fire' club again - can't wait!!!
Until next time everybody!!! xxx
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Mervyn
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It'd help if you got up proper time - what do you think this is ....... an hotel? I'll have to redecorate the whole house now!