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 |
2 opmerkingen:
Wauw geert wat een ervaring zeg !!!
zoeken ze nog een "spierbundel" uit Nederland om te helpen?
Gr Roy
Nou, nou.... indrukwekkende foto's vanuit de lucht! Dat moet een heerlijke dag zijn geweest voor Freya! Daar had ik wel bij willen zijn! Die krokodillenaktie mag je van mij houden....! Wel spannend en interessant natuurlijk, maar ik ben blij dat ik jouw kleren niet meer hoef te wassen.. en dan praat ik al helemaal niet over schoenen poetsen.....
xx Moni
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