Wednesday morning we had to get up really early for our sea kayaking trip at 7:30 am. We met our lovely South African female guide at a little coffee shop where we had breakfast then headed out. On our way out to the point to go kayaking we saw a few jackal, greater flamingos, and some other birds I don't know the name of. The road is rough and you need a 4x4 to get out there. We were the only one's out there kayaking and it was amazing! I was worried I would cap...

Meg and I had decided as we were staying at Solitaire that we didn't have to get up early so we were going to sleep in. Naturally I woke up at 6:30am anyway. We had a nice breakfast that morning and were ready to head out to Sossusvlei. Before we left we were taking pictures of the place when their pet springbok decided to come and check us out. Meg was sitting down as it came right up to her. Later it did the same to me and actually licked me! That was definitel...

Monday was absolutely spectacular. The weather was great and I watched a bit of the cheetah run that morning. After that I updated the gala database. I had another woman help make calls on Saturday and she got really far! There are only about 70 more calls and then just follow ups so the hard part will be done! After that I went feeding with Kate and Jane which was fun. We had the i-pod playing and just had some good conversations. That afternoon Meg and I helped...

This week was thankfully much more eventful than last week. Monday I finally got word from my advisor about registering classes and my advisor took care of it. It's not my ideal schedule for sure, but at least I finally got all classes I needed. That morning I went to do observations all morning. In the afternoon I went with Matti on a game count. We saw an ard wolf and a bat-eared fox! It was surprising because normally you see those much later at night and we s...

This week I had to register for classes for Fall term this year. I got to work early to do it Monday morning only to find that I still hadn't received an e-mail from my advisor with my PIN to register. Meg and I spent the morning sorting cheetah poop for the genetics lab. We were a little annoyed because after sorting them by date into the bins we were then told they needed to be put into other bins. Had we known that we would have put them there in the first pla...