Monthly Archives: March 2013

We were woken with a start to a MASSIVE BANG and a flash of light. We both sat up straight in bed – it’s 3:30 am in Rwanda and all i can hear is boiling water bubbling bubbling and water … Continued

Woke up many times through the night in anticipation of this morning. Ever since I first saw these guys on TV I’ve wanted to go see them in the wild. The scrooge in me has put it off for years … Continued

Today was a long day of travel. Up at 6 to have breakfast and make our way to the airport. We found the locker storage so we could leave one of our bags with our left over non-perishables and found … Continued

Yesterday afternoon I couldn’t help myself, had to get one last cuddle from some of the cubs I’ve been looking after so I ventured into the ABC enclosure and Clarice was up for some muddy lion hugs and belly rubs. … Continued

It’s our last day at Boskoppie and it’s really wet. The enclosures have mini dams and the lions are very muddy. They are also really playful and nobody wants to cuddle them in their muddy state. We’re on Tigers and … Continued

Today’s pics are dedicated to the TUV’s. These guys are a bit out of order. The oldest – Uno is around 7 months, then 6 of the T’s and V’s who are around 5 months. These guys are quite massive … Continued

One of the most beautiful and friendly of the full grown tigers here is Valentino. He is massive! He follows you around his enclosure wanting lots of attention which makes him very hard to photograph cause he’s so close to … Continued

There are two jaguars here at Boskoppie – Jaggy and Boyfriend. They are quite a lot bigger than I expected ie. big cat sizing largest to smallest – Lions, Tiger, Jaguar, Leopard etc. These 2 have very different colouring and … Continued

Busy tourist day today. As it’s the weekend a lot of tourists come through for tours. So there were heaps of people, kids and strollers around the place. We were on ABC’s today and they had some minor flooding with … Continued

Today we were on dogs, ducks and rex again so was a quiet day. I did a bit of nursery baby sitting, we watched them dart a tiger to get some warts cut out and played with the cubs. We … Continued

Today was pretty quiet. I was looking after Rex the caracal (which involves cleaning his water in the morning and giving him a chicken at night) and John was on Dogs and Ducks – also pretty easy – give them … Continued

Today the park owner, Peter, had to dart one of the large male lions in order to transport him. Peter darted the lion by himself so as to keep the lion calm but we headed down straight afterwards to assist … Continued

Some people swim with the dolphins, others with the sharks but how many of us get to swim with tigers? After getting up early and sorting out the Tigers today, we were all rewarded at lunchtime with a tiger swim, … Continued

Today we decided to try out the Go Pro on the dolly with a few of the smaller cubs and then the Go Pro on the hat with the Tigers. At first both groups of cubs were a bit cautious … Continued

Wow…..today was epic! We awoke at 4am to the roar of lions…what a sound! We weren’t assigned to any duties today but we helped out with most of them and am now very tired! We started out cleaning out Rex … Continued

This morning we woke up early wanting to head to Monte Casino Bird Park and take a few close-up pics of their awesome birds that we had so much fun with last time in South Africa. Unfortunately the weather had … Continued

Today we delivered our Windows 8 Kicksart 1/2 day workshop to about 45 locals. It’s actually quite a large group to give a workshop to so we completely re-arranged the room to force everyone into groups so they can collaborate … Continued

The morning started very early with a 3:15 am ride to the airport to check in for our flight to Sydney. Before we even checked in the flight was delayed 30 mins (coming in from Dallas Fort Worth). We weren’t … Continued

We’re taking a little time off and heading over to Africa for a few weeks. While we’re there we’re doing a few presentations in Johannesburg. If you’re nearby, come say hello – details are here. So apologies in advance for … Continued

Last week we built a battery pack for our Kinect For Windows. This weekend we wanted to make the battery pack and the kinect more portable, and do some testing on the batteries to see how long they last. Firstly … Continued

In a couple of weeks we’re heading over to Africa for a well-deserved break. While we’re there, we’ve lined up a couple of presentations on our favourite topics: Windows 8 and Kinect For Windows. It’s been 2 years since we … Continued