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 and often inappropriate French girl)

Every week after that I was team leader - only my groups changed!

We now had 4 cheetah cubs - 3 we walked (Wonder, Odessey and Shiloh) and then a spitty kitty - called Kitty. These were taken out each day for a walk - although they were often not very keen until we started taking Noodle the Jack Russell with us and they had something to chase!

We also did cheetah run with the 8 cheetahs in Lucky's camp - when they wanted to run!

Two of the baboons - Emma and Paulkie - were too young to be in the enclosure so we had to keep an eye on them and they got bolder and explored more on more. Emma at this stage was very nervous of most people and would only go near me if there was no one else available!

They now had a baboon rooms where you slept with the larger babies - Oassie, Asias, Frodo. As these didn't know me it ended up that I slept alone and others had the baboons so I switched to Paulkie who could stay in my tent and in my bed!

Baboon walks now included Big baby walk (a double session with Elvis, Shona, Rudie, Coralla, Rafiki) and the Tiny babies (25 baboons from Gerijtie to Emma!)

The Tiny babies were divided into 3 camps - Max's Group, Hansie's group and Frodo's group.

I was also very brave and went on horse game count twice - got close to the game but my arse and knees hurt about half an hour in!

My least favourite activity was school - children, no teacher, no lesson plans and little English spoken - was glad when the summer holidays started!

Life around the lapa was livened up by 2 goats (Coco and randy, smelly Milo) and a young vulture called Gomez who would pick you if you didn't pay attention!

The highlight of the three weeks was being selected to go and collect a brown hyena who been captured on a farm 100km from the airport. We headed off in Marlice's cruiser with Jack (to film), Anaise (in case of injuries) Marlice and Martin (an Argentinian volunteer) We had no idea what we would find but supposedly the hyena was pregnant. We were lucky as they had managed to get her into a trap cage and kept her in the shade for us. She appear pregnant and unharmed and we were able to move her back to the farm where it was planned she would stay until she gave birth but in the end she dug her way out and escaped!