Wednesday 16 September 2009

Okonjima, Namibia: 15th September 2009


Slight hangover today after consuming too many birthday wines! Morning work consisted of coiling more fence wires, but it was more challenging today as we hit a section going through heavy overgrowth and bushes with big spikes – sounds awful but was actually good fun! At one point we saw a 2 metre rock python making its way into one of the termite mounds. Ugg!

In the afternoon we went tracking hyenas on foot – they have 3 tagged for research purposes. On the way we stopped at the viewing point to work out which would be the best direction to find the hyenas – we had to wait a few minutes as a large family of baboons were playing. I didn’t realise but hyenas can grow bigger than leopards and have ‘the strongest jaws in nature’ officially! We found one, called Pooh after the bear and got very close – very odd looking animals!
















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