Tessa here. Today started in the best way and just got better. My alarm was set for 5:55 but it took until 5:59 for me to wake up, work my way out of my woolly hat and start my day of Lions. Five of us headed out for a Lion walk, this is a opportunity for the lions to become more acclimatised to the bush and gain confidence in the wild before they start hunting, once ready they are then released for breeding. We were walking with two lions cubs of 13 and 18...

We started the day with a quick supermarket shop whilst Driver Dave went and got more paper work done to be able to continue with the truck through Zimbabwe. Then we had a 6 hour drive to get us to Antelope Park. It would have taken less time but there were many roadworks, the occasional police check point where much discussion had to be done about where we were going and what was a truck load of white people doing in Zim. There was also rather a long wait at a t...