Resource Guardianship week 2

1-7/03/2011

1March 2011
We started the day of at the hunting ground where I checked fences.There were a few minor problems such as y standards & droppers that were skew and bent.This was sorted out quickly by rather bending them straight or replacing them.I also had to fix some holes in the fence and I tightened loose fence.After this I went out to spray a road with poison this is for fire prevention.This is called fire breaks and these roads are done so that if I fire brakes out it can not spread further it stops there because there is no more grass to burn or any other materials in that specific area.

2March2011
Today we started of by chasing unwanted animals out of a certain area because they were causing problems in that area like breaking the fences and so on.We learned a technique of doing this were you have a group of people put in a straight line with space between each person walking more or less the same speed covering a certain area.Then you have people on the sides and this means the animals in that area will run out the other side and then we tried from there to get them threw the fence.
This method helped a lot  later on the day as we were looking for an Eland bull that was darted the previous day.We knew round about the area  were it was and also walked in a line to search for the Eland we found it dead  the reason for this was the fact that the transmitter on the dart never went of so they could not of retrieved it the time it was shot.We also saw that there were some scavengers that fed on the Eland like Jackal,Caracal and Brown Hyena.

3March2011
Today I had to go with some of my fellow students to do fence checks at the 400 ha this was a bit of an challenging task as there was no third or second year supervision and we had a deadline at first it went slow and difficult but when we got started everything went really well.We finished it in time and at least did a really good job as the junior managers were impressed by what we have done.

4March 2011
Today I started working at welcoming were we get the guest from there cars greet them by the surname and welcome them to Sondela.We take them threw to Reception and then when they are finished we take them to the Pancake stand.In this time you get to interact a lot with guests and you get time to share knowledge and to learn how to work with all different types of people.

5March 2011
I started to work at the Farmyard today with the donkey cart and horses were I take people on rides we had an record to brake the previous record was R230 and we took it up to R355.This was an great experience and good to set goals week in and week out because this now means Ive got a new challenge for next week.......

6March 2011
I was working at Entertainment today this was a lot of fun.We entertained the children with loads of different activities like "tou trek" pools games like volley ball and so on this was very relaxed but also hard work because it  difficult to keep all these energetic little ones busy.

7March 2011
We had to repair a rusted fence at the cattle grid this was a very difficult task every 90degree you make just brakes or snaps before it is even finished this frustrated everyone and made things even more difficult.Everyone had a second to relax and then we started again everything went nice and quick and the job got done.It went to show that you must try to stay calm in any situation because patients is the key....