3 weeks left! Every week seems to go faster, and equally feels like much more than just a week... Having said that, it's again going to be quite a short entry since we again barely saw anything!

It's been another quite frustrating week in terms of animal sightings. We've had one significant elephant sighting which was this morning, and there were about 30 or 40 of them, but all hidden in amongst the bushes while another one ran at us as soon as we tried to get closer... Wasn't the greatest ever sighting... Elephant research has been extremely annoying this week - we've spent 13 hours in the park and no elephants in that time! Saw a couple of sightings outside of research time, but then it's not research time so I can't research them! Getting worried now - I was promised that August there are herds of 250 elephants on Chamabondo vlei, so Iwas hoping to get one of those during the elephant research session that will happen on my 21st Birthday - that would be a pretty amazing present from the park - but we've barely seen any at all over there recently. There's hardly been any giraffes either. Bird Survey was more successful, counting over 30 species during our drive. 2 Game counts this week also didn't turn up much except for impala and warthogs, though recently we've been seeing more and more waterbucks to the point that we must be approaching some kind of record!

Really the big news this week is that our 2 local research interns (from the University of Zimbabwe and the National University of Science and Technology) are leaving and being replaced by 2 new ones. We spent this week with all 4 of them, helping to train the new people in the different activities, and then saying goodbye to the old interns. We had our differences (sometimes bigger differences than others!) but I'll still miss those 2.

And that really honestly is it! I basically spent the whole week either doing IDs or in the park, and since we didn't see much in the park at all, there's not really much exciting to say! Will upload pictures of the stuff we did see when I manage to get them onto my laptop. Other than that, talk to you next week!