My final day in the bush

Most of tomorrow will be spent in transit, one way or another.

I have to report a vervet raid on the kitchen this morning. Clever monkey liberated an apple before I noticed. I also have some decent pix of crested guinea fowl and some fairly rubbish ones of the local baboons.

And now we are 3.

The couple left this morning without so much as a wave, and our monitor and his new girlfriend left about an hour ago. I am all alone (sympathy, please) as Sina is asleep having got up at 3:30 to go on a fruitless quest for wild dog puppies and the relief monitor, Philip, is hiding somewhere.

Here is a vervet planning a raid:

I probably shouldn't mention the nocturnal hyena visit:

Those tracks are about 10 feet from my bedroom door. The red reflector is where the hyena tried to get the nyala skull down from the post you can just see. (Someone put them in as eyes.)

Here is the only extant picture of me:

and a fever tree.

Here is the baboon which regularly tries to raid the bin:

No - actually that is a different and smaller baboon.

And here is an idiot bird or several:

When I get home I'll get my videos edited and post a photobucket link. There is some awesome dog and cheetah stuff as well as an elephant charging our truck (not very seriously).