The journey begins.......

[Flutterby]

Lovely!!

Although I think your serval is a civet.

[harrys]

Thats correct Flutts

[Bookworm]

Hi everybody
It has been quite a while since I had posted something here. I just wanted to give you an update about where I am studying. I took some photos that I also want to share with you.

These last couple of days were amazing.

This is Gaia the baby serval. We took her for a walk and she discovered that she liked to climb trees...



This is Cheecky



This is Apollo the serval that is tamed. He is very playful at times and sometimes we also take him for walks.



This is Panzy the caracal. I took this pic when he was yawning



This is Sierra and Sahara (they are sisters)



This is Lex. She is bigger than the other two.



The two sisters again



Lex and one of the sisters



This was when Lex was yawning. I really laughed when I saw how the pic came out



One of the sisters yawning



This was today when the more qualified people played with them







This was Porky and me. He wanted to join us on our 15 minute break.



We were given the chance to interact with the big lions again



The two sisters were eating here



This is Apollo again. I had to clean his enclosure by taking out the spider webs with a feather duster. He thought that it was something to play with so he tried to catch it the whole time. Eventually he caught it and then I had to struggle to get it away from him again (it was really hard because I couldn't stop laughing ) but eventually I got the feather duster away and it had a lot of feathers missing... -O



Enjoy.

[harrys]

Beautiful photos just keep enjoying yourself

[Flutterby]

What a lucky girl you are!! Thanks for sharing your pics!

[Toko]

I love these kitties

[Bookworm]

Thanks everyone.

I know I haven't been posting a lot these past few weeks but I have been busy. I will try to get all my pictures in order this weekend so that I can post the last few pictures of my time at the Wildlife Centre. My course there was only 6 weeks long. I have already started with my next course which is Accommodation. I will tell you more about it later on.

[Penga Ndlovu]

Great stuff Bookworm.

I love it to see young people doing what they really want to do.

Took me some time to catch up on this thread, but the read is worthwhile.

I see you have had some adventures that I have had too.

[Bookworm]

These photos are some of the last few pictures I took when I was at the Wildlife Centre. It was the last few days of our course there.

This is one of the little mongooses that we had to help take care of



This is Dolfie the barn owl (I think)



Elvin the squirrel





I am not sure what this bird is called in English but it is called a "Pappegaai duif" in Afrikaans



We had to dig for earthworms for the hadida that was injured. It was fun to play in the mud





We had to dump some old leaves and so on the compost heaps



This is a spider that we found while we cleaned one of the enclosures. If someone can please give me an ID on it, I will be grateful. I saw this spider on a previous occasion but I still don't know what type of spider it is. As you can see it is shiny, that is because it is a silver spider.



This is a few of us after we cleaned a boma properly. It was very dirty and the smell was unbearable then my friend said: "this is inhuman!". After that we laughed because obviously an animal is not human



This is Gaia the serval. She is the youngest serval there.



We had to clean an outside boma and we had to take out all of those plants that I am holding in my hands. This took us almost the whole day.



Apollo enjoyed the attention and eventually he climbed on my lap and purred like a cat. I really enjoyed that.



This is Kuifie. She is tamed. She flies around outside at day and at night we put her back in the aviary. She liked to follow us when we walked around and when we were busy with work.



On our last day we got a surprize. Two of the giraffes that the Wildlife Centre raised last year came to visit us, Makadi and Peanut.







This was really a great experience and I already miss those animals that we worked with. Hope you enjoy the photos. (Sorry about the photo quality, it was taken with my phone)

[Sprocky]

Glad you had a good time Bookworm!! I loved all your photos!!