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Had a nice last day at Chimfunshi today. Went out to Enclosure 1 and 2 for the morning and visited the compound and said hello to the kids. I love their car made out of fence parts.



The chimps must have known I was going as unusually they were around the fence really early so got to take a few pictures.



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Last night Stephan took us to a drive to the house that’s being built and it really has a nice view over the river. Was good to get out for a little bit after a short day at the enclosures.



This morning we headed off to my first day at the Orphanage. Spent a few hours slashing with a really weird tool that I was useless at using. The guys call it a slasher…aptly named. Then I sorted through 3 bags of rotten guavas. It brought back memories of picking up rotten guavas at home when we were kids..they really do smell.



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Sandra and I were at 3 and 4 today. There were lots of visitors around today with the Easter weekend. They all waited up top for the chimps to be release while Tom went inside with Berta still running lose to clean the water bowl. He distracted her with lots of guavas.







Didn’t get a lot of pictures today as they brought us back before they let the chimps out. I’m not as game to get close...

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Decided to hang around camp today as still not feeling great and really not hungry. Got online and chatted to John a bit after he got home from work and polished off The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo. Now I wish I brought the other 2 parts with me. Down to one book that I need to save for the journey home so reading one of Katie’s books while she’s away. Jose left for Ghana today and Katie and Carina were off to Vic Falls. Carina wasn’t well today so gave her half my pills and hope she feels better soon. Having an early night and hoping I’m good to go to the enclosures tomorrow.

Not feeling well again. I suspect it must be the food. If it was the water i’d be sick every day. So didn’t do much at the enclosures today other then find as comfortable spot to lie down as possible. Jose leaves tomorrow and Katie and Carina go to Vic Falls for awhile so it’ll be pretty quiet with just Sandra and I here. There’s a new volunteer coming on Saturday so we’ll be up to 3 again.

This morning we went on a bushwalk and this time I was feeling well. Had a nurse of Dee Dee at the beginning and then headed into the bush.



Jose went to get something out of her gumboot and Dee Dee swiped her boot and took it up the tree. Took us awhile to get it back but she eventually let it go. You can just make it out in the picture below.



I posed for a picture with Dominic and a second later he grabbed my hair and stole my hairband and wore it around like a bracelet.



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When we were chatting to Innocent last night he mentioned he wants recent photos of all the chimps. Katie, one of the volunteers is a photography student and I have a decent camera so we made a plan that we’ll move between the enclosures over the next 3 days and get as many as we can.



Haven’t looked fully at the end result yet but I’m fairly sure we got all of enclosure 4 and most of 3 and did the best we could on Sandy’s cage. He is soooo scary. Gets all puffed up, leaps around and throws lumps of concrete at you. Makes it hard to get a head shot. He reminds me more of a gorilla than a chimp.



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After being locked out of the kitchen supplies last night and having no toilet paper in any of the toilets, this morning we couldn’t make breakfast as we couldn’t get the butter etc. We said goodbye to Phil this morning, and the South African miners and off to enclosure 1 and 2. Milla was acting a bit strange this morning. Normally she’d be wanting to groom you but she kept running inside near the other side of the bars. Finally we worked out she wanted the red chimp ball. She’d have to wait until after the fence checking.

We set off on the fence patrol and Felix offered to take us on a quick canoe ride. We headed to the compound and down to the river where the kids were fishing for bait fish. Felix grabbed the dug out canoe, Katie and I climbed in and off we went.



We paddled along the Kafue river for awhile and saw the original enclosure fencing. It was so peaceful and quite. We headed back and finished off the fence check.



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Today we all took our day off. Some South African miners the other guys had met last week were picking us up and taking us for a braae around 10 so got to sleep in a bit. Then got up and chatted to John online for awhile as the timezones overlapped with a good time. After 10 the guys called and had cancelled on us so we were stuck for the day with nowhere to go. Everyone was a bit bummed and lunch for us was very tiny so we made our own fire and cooked up some of the sausages the Aussies left for us.

Later in the afternoon some of the clients from Friday had come back to stay the night so they could do a chimp walk the next day. They’d brought a bunch of food and were going to braae tonight. Dinner was equally as tiny – 1/2 a piece of chicken each and a bit of potato so I was still hungry. Luckily our new friends brought heaps of food and were keen to share with us.  It was sooo yummy and we sat up chatting with them for quite awhile. Trying to work out if we can go visit their mine one day early this week to break it up a bit.