Wednesday onwards...

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Turns out this week wasn't going to be kind to me with activities! I work up Wednesday only to discover I had reasearch, this is where you drive around fir hours looking for elephants, but find none, then in the afternoon I sat at a computer looking out for animals spotted on a camera trap. Out of 771 pictures, almost 700 had nothing on them!!! Thursday started yet again with maintenance, being out in the sun for 3 hours with only one bottle of water cutting grass, the worst job ever! Carnivore cage cleaning followed. Friday morning was small cage cleaning. At least on Friday afternoon I got to enjoy feeding the carnivors, but placing a dead still born horse over a spike wasn't my idea of fun... but the wild dogs need to eat! 
The evenings have been very fun this week, there was a good bunch of about 18 people who have all bonded really well, we have made a party out of Thursday and Friday night, with musical chairs, limbo and singing on the rooftop till early hours of the morning. 
On Saturday we all were on our seperate ways, 6.45am, not a welcome sight after getting to bed at 2am but the hope is we'll sleep on the bus 😴 
After a nine hour journey, 10 of us arrived in Kanaan, this is a desert retreat where we do a different type of work. 
We were all in bed by 8.30 Saturday night (turns out we couldn't sleep on the bus 🤷‍♀️)
Sunday started with a little hike of 8km around a mountain then in the afternoon we braided wire and put tyres out for the runway!
Considering we are in the desert, it was a surprise to us all when the storm hit and the heavens opened, but it was an impressive sight to see.

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