Today would bring the biggest heart warming surprise, but only after a heart racing start to the day. Up as usual at 6am, breakfast, stretching […]

The Savannah elephant population in Namibia is said to be a healthy 24,000 elephants, but the Desert Elephant number is 300 to 350 animals and […]

First and favourite picture

We have come all this way to protect elephants and not seen any yet. So there was huge excitement when the elephant map and black […]

Of the 13 volunteers, it turns out that the black sheep of this family could have been me! Last night’s campfire chatter turned to the […]

After a week of building walls we are back at base camp. Top priority, to queue for the showers after a week of physical toil […]

Wall. Two thirds of the way to completion

At the build site. Location unknown (somewhere near Okaumbaaha village). Camping near an open farm of cattle and goats in the middle of what is […]

Tuesday 26/9 up at 6am for the 2 hour drive across rough roads to the build site where we will spend the next 4 days. […]

Following the shortest of safety briefings : beware the 3 S’s ( spiders, scorpions and snakes) and respect each other ( loved that being part […]