How's it going? What's happening yo?
We've had a pretty darn interesting week - I so wish I could share it all with you, but I've taken tons of photos, and I'm sure we'll have lots of chats when I get home - there's just so much, it's difficult to describe what life is like out here. But, for your enjoyment, here are a few tidbits of stories:
On Monday, riding around the concession looking for new sites, we stumbled across a hyena den - I don't mean actually STUMBLED, Mum - we were in the car :) There were a few adults lurking around, and Mich saw a flash of a little pup running into the den to hide away from us scary people. We came back later that night for a 'stake-out' - sounds cool, doesn't it? With Ros and Emily in tow (on the back, hee hee), we waited for something to happen. We were hoping for a cute little family scene, pups rolling in the sand, tumbling over one another, while the folks look on with proud and slightly amused looks on their spotty faces. We sat there waiting for a while, sipping on wine we found in the fridge, staring at this den hole. Three adults came prowling out from the bushes behind us (back from foraging, but I didn't see any foraged bits anywhere - maybe they were feeling lazy), and they all took their turns in STARING at us - pretty freaky. One came right up to the car, I mean like 1m away from Emily and Ros's toes dangling off the back of the landrover. After some serious death stares, the sun went down (boo!), and we managed to see a little teenager hyena come out of the den and stare at us some more, before it got seriously dark and we gave up seeing anything. On the way back home, since we were having a night drive, we decided to do it properly, with Em & Ros standing on the back with the spotlight spotting a bunch of stuff for us: more hyena, 3 African wild cat, 15 chameleons, elephant, wildebeest, giraffe, and a lot more that I can't remember, cos by that time I was seriously sleepy. :)
Last night, it seems that the whole population of the concession converged on our camp - we had a great night braaing and chatting and eating so much - Emily and Ros have been cooking up a storm last night and this morning. Won't go into details, but there was a lot of cheese involved, and it looks like we're having home made caramel/chocolate shortbread ice-cream for lunch. WOW!!
This is a pair of mating steenbok we found - very seldom seen, and just too adorable for words!
Last night, while we were waiting for dinner and drooling at all the amazing smells coming from the kitchen, Sven called us outside to see a honey badger right outside the kitchen. he didn't really care much about us, but was very focus on licking up a patch of cream that Emily had tossed into the bush. His nose was all covered in it, the little piggy. We thought he was just too cute, until he glared up at us as if to say "Back off, it's my cream!!" Then we remembered all the stories of people being bitten and attacked by vicious honey badgers, and slowly backed away. Whatever you say, Mr Badger! Sven always finds these amazing things, chameleons and giant stick insects and black mambas...but I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now, cos I just found a baby mole snake outside the office this morning. :) Not poisonous, don't worry - but I found it, and that's just awesome.
Ok, at the moment the office is full and my brain is no longer in writing mode - will update soon. :)
Love
The Kelminator
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