Hello! We're back again, this time from the Kruger National Park! Matt and Chesa arrived on monday (with a hire car!) and we 'booked' into our mud huts for the week! Having left the foundation we decided to stay at the backpackers just 5 minutes down the road for our last week in Africa, partly swayed by the cool mud huts but also by the bar and restaurant we often frequented with the other volunteers from VMF. After a few (too many!) drinks with the VMF volunt...

Hello again! This is going to be our last blog entry from South Africa and will probably be the last one for a week or so due to a lack of internet access! Hopefully a selection of photos will be appearing on the blog in the next couple of days. Yesterday was our last working day at the foundation and luckily we were able to spend most of it with the baby orphans. They've grown loads and are twice the size they were a month ago! Sadly, Star, the premature b...

Hello again! What a night! Its definitely stormy season now! Last night we experienced the most spectacular storm we've ever seen! We had torrential rain, very loud thunder and sheet lightning that was pretty much constant all night! We're amazed that our tent stayed dry (or upright for that matter!), given that the night before the centre pole snapped in half and ripped through the top of our tent! It was a good job that Debs remembered the duck tape! We had ...

Hello again! We've had a hectic week but we've finally managed to get on here and write another chapter on the blog! We're still having issues getting photos on here but we're gonna try again on Sunday so look out! We've been spending more and more time with the babies, and now its baby season we've been getting a new baby in almost every day! We now have 7 babies; 3 girls (Sabi, Star and a new baby which arrived an hour ago) and 4 boys (Jack, Joni, Makosi and...

BEARD WATCH I have decided to (for pure comedy value) to track the growth of Dave's beard as he is yet to shave and doesn't look like he's going to do so in the near future! It seems to be growing well so far so we're gonna take pictures weekly to see how long it takes for him to end up like the picture (Gorilla aka Dave in 5 months time!!). Look out for weekly up dates on growth; so far its about 5mm in length and growing (with a slight hint of ginger)!!