Today Alwyn and I woke up at 6 to fix a flat tire, but then realized that there was no glue to patch the inner tube. We ended up coming back to the housing quarters, having some breakfast, and then fixed the tire with the entire group. After the tire was fixed, we went on a drive on the outskirts of the valley to do a mammal survey. Peter, the general manager of Samara, asked us to drive by the cheetah boma every day so that the cheetahs would become less skittish to people over time. One of the female cheetahs in the boma is very shy, and always freaks out when we drive by, but I’m sure she will get used to us soon. After our drive, Graham Curley, a professor at Port Elizabeth, gave us a talk about how science is relevant to game management, and habitat conservation. He gave the lecture at the tracker academy, which only a pitching wedge away, so that all the tracker students could listen to the talk as well. One of the trackers, named Nathan, is the only tracker student I know relatively well, so I asked him if I could go out with him and the students soon, and he invited me this weekend, so that will be fun. These guys know so much about the bush, so I can’t wait to pick their brain about everything they know. The weather today is very cold, probably about 40 degrees, 30 wind-chill, so I don’t think we are doing much the rest of the day. I’ll convince Alwyn to take us on a night drive after dinner, because the nocturnal animals seem to enjoy colder temperature. It was cold last night as well, and the sky was so unusual looking...
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