American: damn this park is huge! Miles n miles of different types of bush and game. Pretty neat stuff. African: I will translate...a variety of habitats! We had dinner last night, candle lit of course. Christina was kept rather busy removing stinkbugs out of her pasta and salad which was delicious (the dinner, not the stinkbugs). The park IS huge and we have come to the far north near the borders of Mozambique and Zimbabwe to see if there is a change in the fruiting behavior of our trees. As you can observe from our last photograph (autum colours) the colours in the north are very different to colours in the south; this is because the north is much drier and with very poor shallow soils, therefore vegitation shows the seasonal change more rapidly. Christina did very well yesterday and today. We have had 2 experiences with VERY large elephant bulls at very close quarters and although the air does turn blue with expletives, Christina did not panic neither did the elephant bulls. American interjection: Hey man, those things are big AND I was actually driving during one of the 'episodes' and managed not to shift gears and ram up a tree OR up the elephant!!yeehaw! African: the Tortoise is called Patience for a very good reason! (Tortoise is the Landrover vehicle BTW). We spend tonight in our little tent (with our stinkbugs) before heading back south tomorrow. We will be in the center of the park where our trees are more prolific and research will continue. We already have a mountain of information which we now need to sift through and digest. Christina is tasked with taking even more beautiful photographs (could this be possible:) and trying to aquire more species in on and around our trees. May skies are clear and it is cooler now. Last night's thunderstorm was totally out of charcter for the season, but it was really cool having dinner and watching the lightening flashes. Cold beers are tasting GOOD and we are trudging on....