We actually had quite a late star, 8:15 am, sleep in! Before going to Skelm, we needed to stop off at Luna to get the keys for another camp called Safari camp where all the mopane wood was being stored, but as Jamie, the site manager, wasn't there we just had to cross our fingers that it would be open. Luckily it was. At Skelm, Toni and I started on one part of the roof, wiring mopanes together and everyone kept themselves pretty much busy. We eventually had to stop because we ran out of long pieces of wood.
On the way back we spotted one of my favourite animals here, a gemsbok, or more commonly known as an oryx.
At camp, rugby and braai time, South Africa against the all blacks. A few guys from the mine came to watch and strangely enough they seemed to slowly disappear out of the room as the game went on.
07/10
Sunday is our day off so pretty much flopped all day and went down for sun downers on one of the dams.
08/10
Back to Skelm with Dave and his parents. I had to finish my part of the roof by myself as Toni was on camp duty but it didn't take too long. Once the roof was finished, we started attaching bits of old canvas to the inside, so that the animals see less of us and so that we see less of the sun. When we got to the roof, we only had one huge canvas left so Dave decided it would be easier just to chuck it over the whole thing.Not as easy as you would think on a windy day even though there were about ten of us. On the way back to camp, we stopped at Luna to pick up some fire wood and make a camera trap protection box. Basically a concrete box with a hole in it but according to Dave it's a unique design (video on how to make a GWC camera trap protection box on its way).
Being a Monday, there were 2 knew people at camp, Erica and Missy. The amerikiwis. And as I did, they pretty much slept the whole time.
No comments:
Post a Comment