Moved to knysna!

owké, here's an update of what we are doing here!

We moved to Knysna, an amazing town, situated at the Southern Cape coast. The town is known for oyster hatchery. So everywhere you can eat oysters!
Right next to us is a peaceful lagoon. Two great sandstone cliffs form the mouth of the lagoon which connects it with the sea. The one side is highly developed with houses, but the other side is a big nature Reserve. A little further there are forests situated where the biggest Rastafarian community of South Africa live. In the weekend we explored the town, and enjoyed the nice weather.

On Monday, we did a whole day removal of invasive species, together with a rastafarian, named Eugene. Awesome guy!
An invasive specie here is the pine tree ('grove den' in dutch). It was hard work, but quite amusement! We have seen a lot of different plants, birds and insects. It's al new for us! South African bumble bees are hugh! And local kids with little dreads are running around :)

Tuesday we went into the forest for tracking dung, spores, scratches and bark damage of wild animals. Some of the animals we found some tracks of are bushbuck, bushpig, chacma baboon and blue Duiker. Other animals that also live there are, Honey badgers, Caracals, Leopards and Porcupines.

Tomorrow, we're going to jump from the highest bungee jump brigde of the world! 216 meters high! ( If we don't shit in our pants :p)

Al right, that's it for the update!
Ciao and greetz from the 2 Belgian Badgers in SOUTH AFRICA!!!!

Rifle adventures!

So ya I would say the title speaks for itself. But today was the Badgers their last day at the Garden Route Game Lodge and damn we are gonna miss this place fo shizzle! This morning we fed the elephants again like every morning. Than Patrick came to pick us up to get three male cows from a milkfarmer --> Lion food!!! So ya we fed those to the Lions a pretty exciting job with some adrenaline. After that we got a rifle and a darting rifle course and off course the Badgers got to test the Rifle's!!! Enough said! And ya we did much much more interesting work and stuff today but I would say once again watch the pictures they tell more than words do.

Tomorrow we leave to Knysna no clue about internet situation's over there but when we can we keep the blog as updated as possible!

Ciao and greetz from the 2 Belgian Badgers in SOUTH AFRICA!!!!

Adrenaline Day!

So ya today I'm just gonna write about some excited new stuff/work the Badgers did! We had to track a female cheetah with a VHS tracking system and that was pretty exciting and when we found her before we saw her we could see some crows circling around her in the air so ya that is basically a sign she was pretty close. So after finding and getting kinda close up to her and we got to know that a cheetah does not really attack a person as long as you don't run or move fast (still the first adrenaline rushed through our badger blood). After that we prepared some meat for her with calcium so she gets strong bones and does not break them like the cheetah on Sunday.

After that it was time to move to the lions area where we went in to clean out all the skeletons from the dead cows, horses, ... A smelly job and a pretty dangerous job (so once again a adrenaline rush for the badgers), and one of the badgers was sitting in the back of the truck and the lions where running pretty fast and we had one close call, so we could have been able to make the blog into one Belgian Badger in South Africa :)

Ok ya no don't worry it all was safe and ya just watch the pics soon I guess. We did more work off course today but I Just wanted to give this little update.

First BRAAI and first two days working in the field!

Ok time for another little update from the Badgers. So we had our first two days of work and to cut the story short it was nice and included some of this: Elephant monitoring, cleaning the Elephant's Boma, feeding the Elephants, cutting of Acacia branches (this is an alien species in South Africa, came from Australia and is everywhere in the forests) with machetes, repairing some roads in the reservate, feeding the buffalo's (yes the BIG 5 ones! and apparently those one are the most dangerous) luzerne with copper for their immune system, ........ just watch the pics they tell enough. And last night the Badgers had their first Braai (this is a BBQ) and is a social event here and the Badgers did it with Hein and Piet it was a fun night met veel vleis en bier!

Ok so ya that's it for this update time to chill for the Badgers!

Goeiemore Suid-Afrika :)

So this morning the badgers wake up and they discover that their is no internet/electricity and they are like damn what are we gonna do now today on our chill out day before the Big 5 program starts on monday! But just 30 minutes later this colleague (already forgot his name my bad) of Piet walks in and asks us if we wanna join them to go to the cheetah reserve where a wounded cheetah is gonna be shooted with a rifle that has a Ketamine dart in it. So that they can fix his broken leg and put him after that in a boma where he can revalidate. So ya just watch the pics! After that we met the Rastafarian's (which was AWESOME just like all the other stuff today) and helped them with building the boma for the Cheetah. Ok that's it for this update. Cooking time for the Badgers!

Strange moment of the day: I was scratching the dogs in the garden and all of the sudden a Giraffe walks by :)

The badgers arrived in South Africaaaaaa!

So the badgers arrived safe in South Africa after a whole night of fighting against sleepyman at the Johannesburg airport. We got picked up by Dayne and Roger at the George airport today than they drove us to a place that kinda looked like a small zoo (but much nicer), here they keep animals (Lions, Cheetah's, Leopards, Panther, Tiger, Jakhalsen, Wild dogs: mm those where hiding, Hyena, Lynx, Rooikat, Caracal ...) that where used as pets or from a circus or a zoo or for "fun" hunting so obviously they can't life in the wild anymore and got now a better future than before. Here we switched from cars and got a ride from Piet to the place we are now staying in (soon to fall asleeeeeeeep) and damn it's just way to nice for words. Right now the view out the window is: two elephants, two springbok's and one eland! Ok pics might follow soon depends if the Badgers stay awake :)

Oh and did I mention that it was really nice how good they take care here for us? Just really good, ok gone to enjoy the outside view and sun.

Will the Badgers be able to adapt in their new habitat, and get along with all the magical animals? The journey starts tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock in the Brussels airport! From there they set their way to London than to Johannesburg. In Johannesburg they will have an all nighter at the airport. But than Saturday morning they fly to their end destination George.

The badgers advise you to stay tuned! Follow the whole journey on this blog, with exclusive reports and hot pics!