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moving day
Sunday, Jan 09. Today, Lisa and I move back to our studio apartment on Lizard Lane from our house-sitting opportunity at the edge of the forest on Monkey Road. It was nice having a home on the edge of village for awhile. We were able to see elephants, monkeys, a monitor lizard, kingfishers, bee-eaters, palm-nut…
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Sette Cama and Loango National Park
Monday, Jan 10. We hear the rain start by late morning. High in the forest canopy the pit-pit-pit of raindrops changes the aural atmosphere below, further muffling our footsteps along the Gros Boucle forest trail in the southern region of Loango National Park. Kassa, our guide, has met us earlier in the morning at Safari…
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leaving for Sette Cama
Sat. Jan 08 It is 12:30 pm; Lisa and I are meeting the boat to Sette Cama, a village north of Gamba between N’Dogo lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean. Because the road is difficult with sand-hazards and water, the best way is to travel by boat up the N’Dogo lagoon, passing the villages of Magondza,…
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transects beyond Nyanga river
Saturday, Jan 08. Today my alarm has me up at 5:15am to prepare for a drive to Mayanami, a village approximately 40 kilometers from Yenzi Camp, where Hadrien and team have hired a pirogue, a canoe carved from a single tree trunk, to take us up the Nyanga river for six kilometers, then off on…
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birds in the morning
Thursday, Jan 06. Going out early morning with Chris, to observe birds, we drive slowly down the beach road and park in a forest to listen to the morning sounds. Black bee-eaters, sunbirds, white-crested hornbills, coucols, finches, ibises and palm-nut vultures are some of the birds we discover, singing and squawking to greet the morning.…
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like a herd of elephants!
Tuesday, Jan 04. I accompany Hadrien, scientist for Smithsonian, and team of Arnaud and Christian to place camera traps in several forests between Vera Plaine and the Atlantic. We discover the transects in the forest are inundated with water and some require a new approach, cutting through forest and wading forest swamps as we search…
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Yenzi Camp, New Year’s Day
January 1, 2011 Last night, Lisa and I were invited to New Year’s Eve festivities at Mary and Andrew’s home on Mango Lane. We drove over from Monkey Road since it was already dark. As we pulled in to park, Whoa!, we nearly bumped into a family of four elephants. There were two females, a…
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Yenzi life
Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 So the other night, Lisa, Elle and I were delivering Lisa’s excellent home-made pizzas to our friends to share for dinner. It was dark as we pulled in their driveway. Being a typical warm night, I had the window open with my arm out the window. To our surprise, we pulled…
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Gabon arrival
Dec. 16, 2010 Rabi, Gamba, Gabon We just hiked out of the forest after a beautiful morning of hiking, filming and making photographs. In keeping with our present rainforest location, last night after dark a torrential rainstorm complete with lightening and thunder passed through, dumping inches of rain across camp in a matter of hours.…
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