Another two weeks have passed - so quickly! So what have we done and experienced?
Well, we, that is to say, the 8 St Andrews students, Joyce and Mapande from Mweka College (after staying with us for 3 weeks they have now left us), as well as Pendo and Gertrude, our local guides:
Andy tracking paths by GPS to add data to our map:
Evening work consisting of identifying butterflies (our method was to catch and photograph butterflies and then later identify them using butterfly books):
But now we are done with the fieldwork part of our project, so during the day we can now do other things, such as visiting a Maasai village (they show us one of their traditional singing/dancing):
Or going to the local market:
Or maybe use the african transport:
And when we get up early in the morning to go on a trek, this is the view from my room window:
Two days ago we decided to go visit Thornton waterfall (134.86 metres according to our measurements by rangefinder, inclinometer and trigonometry). It's high! This is what it looks like in the dry season - it has obviously more water in the wet season.
The plan for the near future will consist of a 3-day trek up the local highest peak (Shengena peak, 2466m), possibly a Safari in Mkomazi national park, maybe some work for the local community and then we will leave Tona lodge and then some of use will attempt to climb Mount Meru (4600m, second highest Mountain in Tanzania - similar experience to Kilimanjaro, but cheaper) and others will do a Safari in Tarangire National Park.
Note: the posts below now also finally has some pictures to go with the text. Enjoy and be jealous! ;)
