Any business owner knows that free time doesn't exist for them, but yet sometimes we find that helping out with some research project is a good excuse to abandon the marketing, making quotes, doing admin, making bookings, guiding, studying, be on tour, teach etc. So hence the one day Freya joined a friend of ours for an aerial crocodile count in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, and the other day I joined him in the field to catch a monster croc for his research. See some photos below (click on them for an enlargement):
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| St. Lucia Estuary |
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| Various antelope and zebra along a water course |
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| Large group of hippos |
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| Hippo running in the shallow water |
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| Lake Bhangazi in foreground, Indian ocean in background |
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| Our coastline |
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| Humpback whales along our coast line |
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| Dragging the Bull of Tewate out of the water |
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| It doesn't like me blindfolding him |
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| Covering the eyes while the back legs are tied |
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| Sliding through the rope for tying the front legs |
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| It tries to escape again, hold on tight! Take those blood samples quickly! |
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| Patching up the croc with some disinfectant after having taken skin and blood samples |
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| Just under 4.2 meters and about 400 kg. a last photo before we released him again |
