Ok, so not much has happened since the last update, but the weather is far from ideal and we have some time to be silly and to blog. AND we finally decided to report the long awaited and highly anticipated (is that redundant, is that redundant?) story of....THE CHARGING RHINO!!!!! Please, those with a nervous or of delicate disposition should turn their heads now, and not read on. It was a dark and stormy night. All electricity was out throughout the world, we...

Hello again from Skakuza. This is Christina and Steve reporting almost live from inside the infamous KNP. Our headline tonight is the jail break from Skakuza. Five men, all with names I cannot pronounce escaped from detention inside Skakuza police station....no we had no idea there was a detention area in Skakuza...now we will obey those speeding laws...of course if we are detained it appears we can always escape. Anyway, these bad guys were being held for po...

me: Well, moving within Letaba proved to be futile. The bat boxes placed randomly throught the rest camp village were too pervasive no matter where we slept. So! We have moved back to Skakuza for this reason and more practicle ones as well...howz my spelleeng? ANyway.... Steve's translation: the bat boxes STANK! There were fewer fruiting trees for research purposes and the trees at Skakuza are in fruit and in reach. On our last evening in Letaba we w...

Ok, ok, so I whimped out. I could no longer stand the smell of the bat guano and we have moved! It's a bit of a drag because we have to pack EVERYTHING back into the tortoise and then unload EVERYTHING and make a 'house'....repeat as necessary. Anyway, the guano isn't quite as bad here, and the research continues. I put more images in the photo album that include some of the little creatures I've been shooting and we've been researching. Not too exciting fo...

Sunday morning in Kruger ...must be one of the nicest places to spend an idle day. Not that today will be idle we still have so much to do...but this camp is full of interuptions Christina and I have had to walk out and investigate a loud tapping from one of the trees around the campsite. A Golden -tailed Woodpecker chiseling off the bark of a Rain tree (Lochocarpus capassa) in it's never ending search for grubs and beetles. The drive down from the North was un...