Thursday, August 18, 2011

What we do in our 'free time'...


Any business owner knows that free time doesn't exist for them, but yet sometimes we find that helping out with some research project is a good excuse to abandon the marketing, making quotes, doing admin, making bookings, guiding, studying, be on tour, teach etc. So hence the one day Freya joined a friend of ours for an aerial crocodile count in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and the other day I joined him in the field to catch a monster croc for his research. See some photos below (click on them for an enlargement):

St. Lucia Estuary

Various antelope and zebra along a water course

Large group of hippos

Hippo running in the shallow water

Lake Bhangazi in foreground, Indian ocean in background

Our coastline

Humpback whales along our coast line
Dragging the Bull of Tewate out of the water

It doesn't like me blindfolding him

Covering the eyes while the back legs are tied

Sliding through the rope for tying the front legs

It tries to escape again, hold on tight! Take those blood samples quickly!

Patching up the croc with some disinfectant after having taken skin and blood samples

Just under 4.2 meters and about 400 kg. a last photo before we released him again