5 Jul 11
I have started to implement the new patrolling schedules over the last few days and the team is responding well to it. I am basically trying to send two primary messages to poachers and potential poachers:
1. SanWild Reserve is a hard target because we have an anti poaching unit.
2. SanWild Anti Poaching Unit (SAPU) can be anywhere at anytime.
This doesn’t mean that we have to make the job any less enjoyable. For example, on Tuesday evening we did a sweep through our priority areas, then sat at Hippo Dam and had a BBQ (Brai in South Africa) dinner. We forgot to bring a hot plate so I used a large flat rock on the fire to cook the meat. Stone grilled dining at its best! It was interesting sitting there eating a BBQ with the hippos in the water about 10 metres away. Good times.
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| Hennie cooking our pork chops on a flat rock with my Ka Bar knife. |
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| Barend (enjoying one beer before ambush), AJ and Oertjies (the dog) just before going out on an ambush. Believe it or not there are actually two hippos in the background! |
And one for Ms. Dig: This place is just one big artefact scatter, everywhere there is bare earth there is a plethora of artefacts, mainly quartz cores, flakes and various tools, but there are also a lot of hammer stones. It appears that the bare earth patches have been that way for a long time and they were used as both kill/butchering sites and quarries.
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| A couple of tpical quartz artefacts (not the best). |
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| AJ standing in an artefact scatter. Basically every white spot is an artefact, mainly cores and actual retouched tools. |
Wow - love the archaeology! I must say I wondered about it when I looked at your warthog photo (in your Photo Attempt Again post).
ReplyDeleteDid you see my post about the biggest site I've ever seen? There would have been well over a million artefacts there. It was an archaeologist's pointy rock heaven.
Keep up the good work.
Much love,
Ms. Dig.