Zimbabwe Wild Dogs

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Apr 27 2009 | By: zimbabwewilddogs

Hi folks,

I got back to Zimbabwe yesterday after a long, hot drive up from South Africa, where I was attending a conference and doing some shopping.  The journey was 14 hours, including 3 hours at the border, mainly standing in queues or sitting in the car in a queue to get through.  Not much fun, especially when some small beasty has clearly found its way into the air pipes of my car and died there, meaning the whole car has a delightful odour of decaying carcass and it’s a health hazard to put on the air conditioning!

Anyway, we made it through the border, and the project is now the proud owner of two new mountain bikes and a set of new uniforms for the scouts, both of which are long overdue.  I also managed to get a few essential items of camping equipment which we will be needing next month when we start working on the wilds of Gonarezhou National Park.  A few vehicle spares, PVA paint and some mountain bike parts complete the list.  Oh where are the days when a shopping trip involved skirts, tops, jeans, books, jewellery etc??!

The scouts have been doing an excellent job of keeping on top of the wild dogs while I was away and all the packs seem to be doing well.  Both scouts took photos of the different packs so I can confirm the reports and identify individuals present.  Some of the photos are less useful for identification, but are fun nonetheless….

African Wild Dogs looking for the photographer….!

And sometimes they are not even of wild dogs…

I’ll be out in the field for the next few days to do my end-of-the-month check on all the dogs, and will be back with more about the packs soon,

Rosemary