Resource Guardianship week 5

21-24March 2011

21March
I started at the Farmyard milking cows and showing children how it works and then letting them do it this was an different experience as it was sometimes difficult as the children are small and don not always listen.I went on a Game Drive learned a lot but also saw how much I already have learned .I had guest welcoming at 18:00 this we do every Friday and Monday.

22March
There was a huge hole in the fence at the hunting ground the Kudu broke the fence.The fence was really rusted and there was a  big piece broken threw so we decided to make a project of it and just did a touch up on the fence because we can not fix it proper every time we attach the wire again it snaps.We decided to come back the following day and do it all over.We just had to closed it for the night otherwise we can loose more animals.

23March
We got all our equipment together and it was confirmed we are going to take out that piece and erect a new fence.This was the first time that we had to put a new piece of fencing in from anchor post to anchor post the anchor post needed to be cemented again and there were 18 wires to connect.We attached all the wires and then we put in new droppers and y-standards we also dismantled a gate and we sent it in to be fixed.

24March
This  was an exciting day for the people of Wildlife Center as we were going out to let the Vulture free that they were rehabilitating for an while now.It was the most amazing thing to see when he started running and then flew of they followed his movement the whole day to see if it is still fine.After this we went to the "koppies" were we learned about cultural heritage and looked for things that were left by nomadic groups thousands of years ago we found interesting things like clay pots, bones and spear points.We also found pieces of iron the closest place  to Bela Bela that has Iron is Thabazimbi that shows that it was taken there by people many years ago.