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The guides moved to Moro kopjes in Southern Serengeti yesterday. Today Sean had them on top of a kopje at 0530am to see the sunrise and listen to the dawn chorus of birds. By the end of the year they will know every sound that chirp.

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These are egg sacks of the Black widow spider. The spiky balls are a great way to id this spider. The Brown widow spider have smooth egg sacks. They are neuro-toxi and free living spiders meaning they hunt their food down and don't use webs. They only use silk when laying the egg sacks.

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Grows on kopjes and in the dry season looks completely dry. Add a bit of water and it comes 'to life'. Use to make fire in the dry stage by turning binoculars upside down.

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All Serengeti walking guides set off on a walk.

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It's a caterpillar of a moth. The hairs makes it tumble in the wind.

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All Serengeti walking guides set off on a walk.

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Can give photo sensitization to animals when eaten in large quantities. This makes the soft parts of body, nose and lips very sensitive to sunburn.

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Small pits on leaves are called pit domatia that is a small hole for mites to live in that protects the bush from fungi.

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Flowery shrub with orange flowers that parasitize grass routes normally in disturbed soils.

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Heliotropium/ string of stars:
The flowers points to the sun all the time and follow the sun.

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Scrub hare dung: The hare eats its own morning dung. That gives them chance to digest food for a second time and to eat the bacteria that came out of the stomach for protein since they have very poor diet.

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Bagworm/ wingless moth: A moth that makes a nest with grass or thorns. Females have no wings. Only legs and feeding organs. If females does not find a male she can inseminate herself (parthenogenesis) But only fist generation can do P. second generation must have male to breed with.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/635064/Wayo_-_Mess_tent_at_night.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5BhFbCcKwlXz Jean Du Plessis Wayo Africa Jean Du Plessis Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:16:27 -0800 One on one with James http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/one-on-one-with-james http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/one-on-one-with-james Just back from the first morning of guide training. Only guide in camp right now is James so he had encyclopedias of info thrown to him from two over eager guide trainers. Rest of the guides will be in camp later today.

The next few posts will be information and pictures of things we saw this morning. If it is too much 'nature' for your liking don't read it!!! At least it's better than keeping you updated in your friends rubbish facebook games!

Enjoy!

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The flight in to Serengeti took us over oldonyo Lengai an active volcano.

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South africa to Tanzania and very intimate experiences with border officials Sean is here! Only 2 days on the ground in arusha to get all the mould off the clothes and on a flight now to Serengeti to start a 2 week walking guide training course based out of our central Serengeti training camp. Sean will be with us for one year and the aim is to get all our guides to fgasa level 2 and our walking guides to Sks big game standard. Will keep you posted on this blog!

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Early morning on Jokas farm

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Wayo Africa/ Green Footprint Adventures is 1 week from the arrival of guide trainer extrodanaire! Sean Robertson a level 3 FGASA instructor will be joining us for a year where we will embark on an epic year of guide training. However, we need to get Sean and his pops out of Malawi on air...stuck in Blantyre for the past few days due to a fuel crisis. 10km long queues at filling stations and watered down diesel at a gazillion dollars a liter. This is all after real helpful border officials at Beightbridge, Zim and Malawi assisted to make the trip thus far such a pleasure - NOT! So I am sure Sean is ready for a few days wait on a pretty beach in Northern Malawi while the 'really helpful' importation agents of Tz help us clear the new car and camp, thanks boys, glad to know we are all on the same side!

Our training will commence in January and besides training existing Tanzanian safari guides and park rangers we will also train a few street boys thanks to funding from Explore Tanzania www.exploretanzania.com 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/635064/Wayo_-_Mess_tent_at_night.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5BhFbCcKwlXz Jean Du Plessis Wayo Africa Jean Du Plessis Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:08:25 -0800 Where are the buffaloes? http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/where-are-the-buffaloes http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/where-are-the-buffaloes Just in case anyone was wondering where all the old grumpy buffalo bulls in the Serengeti went...they are ALL in the walking zone around our camp! It's fun and games out here playing duck and dive...!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/635064/Wayo_-_Mess_tent_at_night.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5BhFbCcKwlXz Jean Du Plessis Wayo Africa Jean Du Plessis Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:14:51 -0800 Where are all the buffaloes? http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/where-are-all-the-buffaloes http://wayoafrica.posterous.com/where-are-all-the-buffaloes I'm back in the Serengeti on a four day walk. If anyone is wondering why there aren't any old grumpy male buffaloes elsewhere in the Serengeti it is because they are all here around the walking area, looking at me like I own them money...! There will be fun and games!

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