After completing 4 exhausting days of Kids Bushcamp, starting at 5am every morning, today I spent 12.5 hours, from 8am until 8.30pm helping the rhino monitor to update the black rhino monitoring information, create and complete the 2012 rhino status report, select ID photos, and use powerpoint to draw fiddly little notches on ID pictures…..and tomorrow…. I'm doing it all again, but for the white rhino population - it's feeling like a long, long weekend!

Last weekend I drove to the other side of the reserve to use the (cold water only) washing machine. When I arrived at the building that has the machine in it I opened the door to find a wildebeest head and innards on the side of the sink. I later found myself delivering that head, together with two impala heads to another part of the reserve - with the blood still running from their necks as I moved them. Just one more reminder that I am a long way from Hampshire!