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well, I left Tuli after a total of 20 weeks there!…FABULOUS weeks too!

As a thank you for my persistence in hanging on ;^) I was taken to the Molemane project run by Brett and his ozzie sidekick Clint. I arrived after an 11 hour drive! with Theo and Rob (Theo is doing a DVD for ACE….Rob is another student)

Molemane is VERY different to Tuli: its a plains reserve so comnpletely different animals including: Hartebeest, Blesbok, Buffalo …oh and Rhino (the white flavour)

we’ve done drives every day to check on animal numbers, fence condition etc and had a superb time in general (I wish I had more time to write about them…hopefully I’ll get some time in the near future to redo this post

anyhoo, most memorable times include: walking Buffalo (which means walking thru known Buffalo territory) which may not sound like owt special till you understand that Buffs are now THE most dangerous anuimal to humans in RSA !!! we had at least 2 close calls on one walk: we found “number 42” Buff in some bushes which we almost walked onto (she’s dying so VERY dangerous) then later Brett left us by a few metres to recover an old fence rod…..as he got back to us he realised that there were 3 buffs stood just behind us in another thicket!!!!

Fun with Rhino: we walked thru a thicket and found ourselves maybe 25m from 2 rhino lying half asleep!!!…a quick about face and we walked away…this time!

we also did a sleep out in a thicket (overnight, obviously) we had 3 (plus 2 distant) rhino only 20m away and approachingto 10m from us….just inquisitive, Brett said!…shows how odd humans are tho: we went to sleep with them stood only 10m away…it was ‘old hat’ by then!

more to add later (hopefully)

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