WOW! How can i capture what i ave seen and done today.... photographs can provide an indication of some of the things i have seen, my description can provide imagery for you, but i dont think i can explain and show enough pictures to capture today, look and read this combined and hopefuly part of my day will come to you.

The alarm clock sounded at 7.30am and i rememberd where i was, i reached and looked out my window, the feeling of seeing bright blue sky combined with the shades of green of the garden.... i could only smile. Walking into our kitchen looking out the window across the garden into the fenced area... 2 elephants stood!....yet again the smile across my face the feeling of finaly seeing this infrnt of me!

This followed with meeting my two fellow volinteers, to then sit out and have breakfast and finaly see the landscapes around me! Arriving last night at 10pm.....darkness took over along with tiredness and not quite knowing what i will wake up to.

Into the elephant enclosure to help clean them out, meeting 2 of there keepers, out to repare and get water from one area to another with patrick who works on the reserve, normally incharge of the reptile park. First real insight into the reserve, helping to do this, seeing, giraf,zebra, springbok, eland, blue cranes, as we drive around back and for to the lion enclosure where the main fixing and replacing of smal sections of pipes took place, the 3 lions in the near distance watching what we were up to. Lunch followed, then a run into a nearby town, then back with patrick,(who was delayed as he was getting a snake out of someones house in the town......proved not to be poisonas! Then to get meat to give to the cheetah, watching the cutting of the raw meat, (horse), we drove to the cheetah's then i flung two bits over the fence for them to eat, whilst we then went into there enclosure to clean out there water! The strong smell of raw meat and the feeling of it then watching as the cheetah's pick it up and run of to eat it!

Then with hein to find one of the cheetahs who is in a much larger area, we gave her the rest of the bit of horse..the bone of the leg. The noise and seeing her eat the meat.....

Then to finaly touch an elephant..... the beauty of such an animal standing right infront of you, the trunk as you drop food into it....and the soft slimmy texture of its tongue! To then sit and watch it eat for a while, in its enclosure which it spends the night in.

Then as we walk back to the house the sunset, with 3 white rhino just over the fence from the garden, as the sun set, and the black silo-et of there shape stood out.

Lets see what the next day will bring, i have already learnt so much- alot to take in and remember however.

Funny monemts; as i droped food into the elephant's mouth it blew out its trunk onto me, i thought i seen several snakes....all being branches, we were looking for the carcus of a horse that the cheetah were eating the other day and i pointed and said is that it..... it was a tree stump.