Working Weekend (26-28 Nov 2010)

Saturday 27 November 2010

Today I was on conservation and game drives. I did the 07:30 game drive with Antonet. We struggled a bit with the Cruiser, but at the end everything went perfect. The game drive consisted of 2 guests and they were quite friendly. We saw quite a lot of animals like: giraffe, blue wildebeest, blesbok, impala, and 21 eland, I have never seen so much eland before, there was also baby eland so adorable.The game drive went quite well and had a lot to talk about. The afternoon at 17:00 we had a game drive with an attitude this is when people get a game drive with snacks. We had an oversees group ''Chinese", they were very interested in what we are telling them and what they saw,I also learned more about them I didn't know that they like eating donkey, this is one of the most expensive meat that they sell in China.We saw the following: eland, blue wildebeest, 6 black backed jackals, serval, red hartebeest, blesbok, impala, warthog etc. I enjoyed this game drive a lot and loved to learn the people new things that they never knew before. We had a woman on the game drive that translated what we told them and then told her people, after the 1 hour game drive we went to the Marula tree at the one drinking area, the guests had snacks and some fruit juice. After wards we headed back to the reception. The people said that they had an unbelievable experience.

**EFAF day 27 October 2010**

This is the iternary we used for the day:

WHERE ARE WE GOING:

EFAF-Elephant for Africa For ever

COST PER PERSON:

R100 per person for interaction

LEAVE AT SONDELA AT:

13:30

RETURN:

16:00

WHERE TO MEET:

Sondela Academy

GROUP MEMBERS:

20 persons

*Chenelle *Christian *Michelle *Monica

*Kyle *Chantelle *Kristi *Salamina

*Antonet *Skigh *Bryan *Jason

*San-Marie *Pg *Dewaldt *Lune

*Zenobia *Lindie *Eddie *Liaan

TOTAL COST FOR THE DAY:

R2, 401.00

Distance Travelled

112 km

Today we had a chance to spend some time with the ellies,was really the greatest time I've had with them. What a opportunity, this was the first time I got so close to an elephant. We arrived at Zebula where the people showed us the interaction (What the elephants can do), it was pretty good how they listened to their teachers they had to sit down like a dog, jump in the air, talk we had to feel their body along the side. We had to feed them small pieces of oranges and boskos every time we had to ask them to do something and then feed them after doing what we asked. I wish we had a unbelievable opportunity to go on a safari with them and swim in the dam. We got very interesting facts about them like when we heard from the owner's son how they can smell a landmine far away and the elephants smell is much better than these of a dog...they founded drugs and the Police's dogs couldn't! The day before we had to get facts, feeding habits, habitat etc. about the elephants so that we know more about them and could tell them about our information we got. This day I learned more about their habitat and how much water they can drink in a day, when do they sleep, how much do they get fed everyday and how good their memory is. This was one big opportunity and I'm glad that I had the chance to sit on the elephants back, it's worse than climbing on a camel it's much higher, you have to do it to believe it.

Will give anything to spend some time with them again.