Monday, November 24, 2008
Okay, so what has taken place to this point is lack of internet and a hectic schedule. It seems that it is impossible to keep up with editing my pictures and performing research. We just finished on Sunday the field research. That composed of traveling for 1-3 hours one way to particular sites through Amboseli National Park. The 11 students in our group were then subdivided into groups of 2-3 with a guide and an armed Kenya wildlife service guard. We hiked through brush, bushes and barren land for 5-7 hours to map bomas, institution and wildlife. Bomas are little villages usually composed of a family. The structures and wildlife were marked by gps and then we moved on. On average 13 km were covered per group. On the 9th and 10th day we finished the structures within the group ranch and just located wildlife and the distance they were from any structures or road. This will give us information on how much structures and roads displace wildlife. I’m still trying to upload more pictures so hang tight. Oh and the future plans…. Yae…. Travel to Cairo, for 6 days and hopefully catching a boat to Alexandria or Casablanca and then meeting some friends that I have made here back in Kenya to do some traveling in the kakamanga forest and up the coast. I’ll be heading back to the U.S. on the 21 midnight. Oh, and there is no way escaping without a farmers tan here, because it is not acceptable to take off your shirt in front of people so I have a bad one… in-fact the worst one out of the group as I am told.
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