Namibia - Day Five & Six

Caracal Walk
After my eventful night with Koos I then had a caracal walk with a caracle called Alex who is tame and ever so beautiful! She has huge pointy ear and eyes. I was amazed at just how friendly she was as well. It was just like a big short haired version of Elmo (my cat).
After muffin break we took the Junior baboons on their walk. They are so much bigger than the babies and toddlers and weigh a fair amount more to when they jump on your shoulders and are a little scarier as you know that if they chose to attack you they could certainly do some damage.

Alex the Claracle

At lunch on the Thursday Nessi and me thought that it would be a great idea to jump into the pool. It was FREEZING, i came up in shock and forgot how to breathe for a moment to but once in the sun it definitely cooled you down.
After lunch we started to did the new trenches for a big baby baboon enclosure as theirs is far to small for them! Who would have guessed just how solid the ground would be though! Throughout the afternoon i gained a lovely temporary tan of dust and dirt as well.
In the evening we were given a really useful talk on photography by Stu. We were told about

• ISO
• Shutter speed
• Aplitude

He also went on to tell us about the 3 line rule, how in landscape you need something in the foreground and how if something is looking in a direction create a space for them to look into, it was really interesting and I was glad I had been to it as I did use it whilst I was away.

Wish Day
Wish day was great as you get to select what you do when its your last day at N/a'am ku se. I chose to do a enclosure patrol, carnivore feed and a game count in the evening which were all really good.

Umbeli the Leopard

Aisha the Cheetah

Kiki the Cheetah

 

Jammu the Cheetah

 The enclosure patrol involves checking the electricity and water levels in all the enclosures along with seeing if any animals had tried to dig out/in of the enclousres. During this time we got to see lots of the cats up close which was amazing these included Umbeli the leopard and Kiki, Aisha and Jammu the     cheetahs. The walk in total was around 6 miles which was quite a long walk to have completed before 10.30 in the morning but definitely worth it to see such beautiful animals up close.

Duma getting angry

Icko the scaredy cat

After muffin break of doughnuts, we went out on a Carnivore feed in which I got to throw large chunks of meet to Duma, Jammu and one of the cubs. You forget just how powerful big cats really are some times but watching them eat you can truely appreciate the size of their teeth and power that they have in their jaws. We also saw Meatball and Gobalina the two lions that if they wanted to they could break through the fence and kill you if they so pleased. This is because if there is a bush fire they want the animals to be able to escape if they had enough will to even though it would hurt being electrocuted it means that they would survive which in theory is a good idea but when faced with a lion who if he is more hungry that his meat slice could break out its a little                                                      daunting.

One of my favourite pictures!

One of the Cubs

Me feeding a cub

After lunch we went out on a game drive on the new property the other side of the road to N/a'an ku se. Game counts involve spotting as many animals classed as game and recording your sitings. At Neuras we did alot more of these (at least 2 a week). On this game drive we saw Springbok, Hartebeast, Ostritches, Warthogs along with some birds such as guinea fowl. The area was really nice with lots of good grassland grazing sights and streams, perfect for African animals.

Liska the wild dog

Meatball catching his meal

one of the cubs 

Meatball shaking his mane & Gobalina