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Sunday May 21st (Day 8)
After a restless night thinking about the zebra, we eat another good breakfast and set out by 6:45. I am cautiously optimistic that we will find it. We get to where we last left the zebra and drop the trackers off to check the block (roads) to see if they had crossed in the night while Lin and I went into the bush where we last left them. No tracks crossing the road so the trackers join us in the search. At about 9:00 Lin decides he and I will set out to check leopard baits and leave the trackers to follow the zebra. They have picked up the tracks heading towards water, so we hope the zebra will be still upright or somewhere nearby dead.
We get to our first bait and nothing, but on the way to the second bait Lin spots some poachers. He instructs me to drive the truck up the road for a bout 5 minutes, then turn around and slowly come back. He and the Zim parks ranger get off to pursue the poachers. Now this is the first time in my life I have ever driven on the "wrong" side of the vehicle. Lucky for me (and Lin) and can still remember how to drive a stick shift, but its a little awkward at first shifting with the left hand! Getting a little sidetracked from the poacher and zebra story here, I was like a kid again driving a stick shift in a newer vehicle, so much so that I had to document the fact that I was driving on the wrong side with a selfie, lol... So I can now check this item off the bucket list
Back to the story, when I was driving the tracker radioed in and I answer. They found the zebra not far from where we were looking...what a relief. The best part is that he was not eaten on during the night so I could still have a full flat skin to work with.
I pick Lin and Molly back up and they had chased on some fish poachers. They ran off so fast they left some of the 2 liter bottles equipment and flip flops.
Now onto the zebra recovery, the stallion had a pretty neat coat. The picture angles of this pose were due to the fact this his legs were stiff and straight out, but I do like the poses.
And one with the trackers Jobulane and Kouleku, they are the ones who found it!
After a restless night thinking about the zebra, we eat another good breakfast and set out by 6:45. I am cautiously optimistic that we will find it. We get to where we last left the zebra and drop the trackers off to check the block (roads) to see if they had crossed in the night while Lin and I went into the bush where we last left them. No tracks crossing the road so the trackers join us in the search. At about 9:00 Lin decides he and I will set out to check leopard baits and leave the trackers to follow the zebra. They have picked up the tracks heading towards water, so we hope the zebra will be still upright or somewhere nearby dead.
We get to our first bait and nothing, but on the way to the second bait Lin spots some poachers. He instructs me to drive the truck up the road for a bout 5 minutes, then turn around and slowly come back. He and the Zim parks ranger get off to pursue the poachers. Now this is the first time in my life I have ever driven on the "wrong" side of the vehicle. Lucky for me (and Lin) and can still remember how to drive a stick shift, but its a little awkward at first shifting with the left hand! Getting a little sidetracked from the poacher and zebra story here, I was like a kid again driving a stick shift in a newer vehicle, so much so that I had to document the fact that I was driving on the wrong side with a selfie, lol... So I can now check this item off the bucket list
Back to the story, when I was driving the tracker radioed in and I answer. They found the zebra not far from where we were looking...what a relief. The best part is that he was not eaten on during the night so I could still have a full flat skin to work with.
I pick Lin and Molly back up and they had chased on some fish poachers. They ran off so fast they left some of the 2 liter bottles equipment and flip flops.
Now onto the zebra recovery, the stallion had a pretty neat coat. The picture angles of this pose were due to the fact this his legs were stiff and straight out, but I do like the poses.
And one with the trackers Jobulane and Kouleku, they are the ones who found it!
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