Last week, Roz and I went out to sample the migration route taken by Valkyrie and Jezebel. We started close to Hippo Pools, but after only 8 points sampled we fell into a hole that we failed to spot and unfortunately broke all but one blade on one side of my suspension. We crept back to camp, after managing to get hold of Gabriel, who was in town and agreed to bring a set out. We borrowed the TDi and sampled until dark, before coming back to camp, only to find that Jezebel had turned around and come back to the Gomoti when I checked the website for buffalo movements. Two of the tyres on the TDi had slow punctures the next morning and we were pressed for time, so unable to fix them and we had to borrow the cruiser. We finished off sampling the next day, taking 71 points on that route.
We high-tailed it back to camp to pick up my car, which Moses had kindly fixed while we were busy sampling, and get straight into town in time for a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) course organised by the University of Botswana for the next four days. During that course, the drag link arm on my vehicle fell off so that I had no steering, but I managed to get that fixed by the end of the course. My supervisor from the University of Bristol gave us short notice that he was coming to visit, so I met up with him and arranged to take him down to the Makgadikgadi for zebra darting with a colleague. Unfortunately the zebra refused to play and spent hours staying just out of range of the dart gun.
Two days ago, Jezebel changed her mind again and moved eastwards. Valkyrie finally decided to stay in the east, whereas Fury, the third collared animal on the Gomoti, is still showing no signs of migrating as yet.
We high-tailed it back to camp to pick up my car, which Moses had kindly fixed while we were busy sampling, and get straight into town in time for a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) course organised by the University of Botswana for the next four days. During that course, the drag link arm on my vehicle fell off so that I had no steering, but I managed to get that fixed by the end of the course. My supervisor from the University of Bristol gave us short notice that he was coming to visit, so I met up with him and arranged to take him down to the Makgadikgadi for zebra darting with a colleague. Unfortunately the zebra refused to play and spent hours staying just out of range of the dart gun.
Two days ago, Jezebel changed her mind again and moved eastwards. Valkyrie finally decided to stay in the east, whereas Fury, the third collared animal on the Gomoti, is still showing no signs of migrating as yet.
