{"id":164,"date":"2008-10-20T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaziland2008.mcguireclan.org\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T18:21:16","slug":"day-11-automation-wiring-contd-more-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 — Automation Wiring Cont’d + More Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Greater<\/a>

Greater Kudu<\/p><\/div>\n

On the way to the site this morning, I spotted something huge standing in the road\u00a0some distance ahead.\u00a0 As we got nearer we recognized that\u00a0it was a male greater kudu, one of the largest African\u00a0\u00a0antelope.\u00a0 I estimate it was about 13 feet high to the tip of its corkscrew horns.\u00a0 We then began to notice there were other males around and counted four before we passed the area.\u00a0 In sixteen years of traveling to the site, I had only seen one.\u00a0\u00a0Steve had not seen any for three years and never four at once.<\/p>\n

After we arrived at the site, everyone was buzzing about the python being visible in the loft of the big<\/p>\n

\"7<\/a>

7 foot python in big shed<\/p><\/div>\n

shed laying on top of one of the crates.\u00a0 We hurried over with our cameras only to find it was slowly on the move and eventually hid between two pieces of plywood.\u00a0 Steve and Klaus bravely climbed onto the loft and carefully pried its hiding place open to get the photo shown.<\/p>\n

\"Tortoise\"<\/a>

Tortoise<\/p><\/div>\n

Our animal adventures for the\u00a0morning were not\u00a0over yet.\u00a0 When Mbusi, TWR’s builder, arrived from town, he had the next creature in the back of his bakkie (pickup).\u00a0 He had found a large tortoise along the road that we ended up photographing and releasing.\u00a0 It was about 18 inches in length and about 9 inches high when it was walking.<\/p>\n

\"Automation<\/a>

Automation Wiring by Hans Van Kampen <\/p><\/div>\n

With animal adventures over for the morning, automation wiring began in earnest.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 By mid afternoon it was obvious that the wiring would not be done to allow the new transmitter to go into service today.\u00a0 I looks like it will be ready tomorrow barring any unanticipated problems.<\/p>\n

\"Crested<\/a>

Crested Guinea Fowl<\/p><\/div>\n

There was one more animal adventure for the day.\u00a0 This one again on the site road.\u00a0 On the way home we saw a group of several guinea fowl.\u00a0 Initially we thought they were the helmuted variety that we had seen as mentioned in an earlier blog.\u00a0 As we got closer, we noticed that they were of a different variety,\u00a0possibly crested guinea fowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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