Game Census!

So this was it the day I extended my stay here for. The game census was quite the experience with it beginning at 5 am in order to catch most of the animals before the hide into the bush. Now the count works like this. The conservancy is divided into 9 blocks and each block gets a vehicle with 3-4 people. Then in the morning till noon you drive around counting every mammal you see. However, with huge herds sometimes you have to approximate. I was put into block 7a with Kirk, Michael (the AV group staff member and a ranger), and June who's a Soysambu resident. We saw lots of impala, zebra, gazelles, and jackals through out our drive with the occasional giraffe, vervet monkey, and warthog. For this count we were not counting birds though because that is a separate census. At the end we added up all the animals and handed in the papers to the main office. Then everyone dispersed and went on with their day. It sounds not too exciting but I thought it was a lot of fun and when I get home in two days I'll be sure to tell more stories that I haven't mentioned yet.