Archive for April, 2008
Howzit guys, Well, we’re still waiting to get murdered in our beds, but some people are just so unreliable. Rosemary is really getting stuck into the dog project and it’s good to have someone to show me how these things are supposed to be done! She has previously done a similar sort of thing with lions in Kenya and that experience has put her in good stead for this work to say the least. When she has finished her initial workload, she will be able to contribute to the blogs as well. As the trackers are away on leave, we have decided to look for the collared packs. Yesterday, we found the Maera pack although we had to almost completely circle them until we could find a way in to get to them. They were in a wooded area that we really had to bash through and, with all the stumps and fallen logs, etc. it was a miracle we didn’t incur any punctures. We’ll probably make up for that in the next few days though!
Today, we hope to locate the Mavericks pack in the south. We know where they were yesterday, so hopefully they haven’t gone too far and are still in that area. Sarai zvakanaka, Mike
Howzit guys, Sorry for the late post. We are all still here and all waiting to see what happens with the elections, like most of the country’s population. Last week we were concentrating on finding a pack of five dogs that were being reported near our new base. It was hazardous following them because the first two times the guys were tracking them, they led them straight into elephant herds with very protective mothers! We finally found three of them resting at a waterhole and we heard the other two calling nearby. We waited for them to show up but, after an hour, they still hadn’t appeared and our presence was preventing other animals from drinking.
We hope to find the full group of five once we can get started on the dogs again. Sarai zvakanaka, Mike |
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