Greater Kudu
On the way to the site this morning, I spotted something huge standing in the road some distance ahead. As we got nearer we recognized that it was a male greater kudu, one of the largest African antelope. I estimate it was about 13 feet high to the tip of its corkscrew horns. We then began to notice there were other males around and counted four before we passed the area. In sixteen years of traveling to the site, I had only seen one. Steve had not seen any for three years and never four at once.
After we arrived at the site, everyone was buzzing about the python being visible in the loft of the big
7 foot python in big shed
shed laying on top of one of the crates. We hurried over with our cameras only to find it was slowly on the move and eventually hid between two pieces of plywood. Steve and Klaus bravely climbed onto the loft and carefully pried its hiding place open to get the photo shown.
Tortoise
Our animal adventures for the morning were not over yet. When Mbusi, TWR’s builder, arrived from town, he had the next creature in the back of his bakkie (pickup). He had found a large tortoise along the road that we ended up photographing and releasing. It was about 18 inches in length and about 9 inches high when it was walking.
Automation Wiring by Hans Van Kampen
With animal adventures over for the morning, automation wiring began in earnest. Since this was Hans’ design and installation, I spent much of the day trying to catch up with email correspondence and doing some of this blog. By mid afternoon it was obvious that the wiring would not be done to allow the new transmitter to go into service today. I looks like it will be ready tomorrow barring any unanticipated problems.
Crested Guinea Fowl
There was one more animal adventure for the day. This one again on the site road. On the way home we saw a group of several guinea fowl. Initially we thought they were the helmuted variety that we had seen as mentioned in an earlier blog. As we got closer, we noticed that they were of a different variety, possibly crested guinea fowl.
I like the tortoise! I am having fun! We played in the leaves!
Love,
Andrea!
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I liked the tortoise too!
Are you having fun?
I miss you. I love you so much!
Audrey
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I love you and miss you. My favorite animal is either the guinea fowl or the Kudu!
Neat pictures! I am glad that you are getting to see so many neat things! The Kudu picture is gorgeous!
I would love to see a Secretary Bird again, I think that they are hilarious! We tried getting pictures of one at the site once, but it did not work. At a game park, we followed another and it was a lot of fun!
Isn’t God so very good to us?
We miss you lots!