I was now sharing a tent with Claire and more often than not 2 or 3 baboons, baby warthogs or Taz the porcupine. My final room mate was Kelly who discovered she had pnuemonia soon after arriving on the farm so made everything a bit interesting for her and me! While we were in Neuras yet another baby arrived - Fila. She would only sleep with Dallas and woke up during the night with night terrors due to death of her mother. The night of the staff party was the day...

Heading to Neuras with (mostly) a great group - Zoe, Annika, Adam, Monika, Camilla, Jayne and son and Liz the coordinator. To avoid Adam and I having to share with son and mum respectively we decided to ask to share instead so became roomies for the week. We eneded up in the only room without air-con which made for some steamy nights! The week started with a sun-downer and proceeded with camera trap checking, cheetah feeding, gps training, fence removal and othe...

Arriving back to the farm I had a room mate for the first time - but on ly for a night as she ended up moving in with a friend! Whilst in Kanaan a new baboon arrived - Bob Bon named in honour of the junior baboon Bonnie was was killed while I was away as well :( She had the tip of one of her fingers removed after it was damaged when her mother was killed. These two weeks also included a lot of dartings to move cheetahs down to Neuras and move other animals aro...

An early start and a long journey down to Na'an Kuse's desert project and the edge of the the Namib desert via Neuras to switch vehicles. Only 4 of us were going to be in Kanaan that week - two nice but young German girls - Eva and Indra and a pain in the butt Mexican girl who was staying there another week (as she would have to share a room if she went to Neuras as planned). We were picked up in a strange vehicle that they called Wonderbread (as it looked like ...

Arriving back on the farm felt like coming home but also arriving for the first time. Some staff and things were the same but other things had changed - as expected after 2 years. For the first 3 weeks I had a tent to myself - allowing me to spread out and not worry about the mess! My first group consisted of Julie (Canadian, returner, celebrated her 60th borthday on the farm), Tim (British ex-vet and ex-doctor) Nici (lovely German girl) and Scarlet ( a loud an...