What did we do this week?
- Had a minor vehicle fire...courtesy of a Radio Shack DC cigarette plug outlet. No damage except for the plug and one other item because we got the fire out quickly.
- Conducted two 24-hour hippo pool sampling events.
- Had a Maasai Game Ranger remind me that nothing is easy in Africa...during one of those 24-hour hippo pool sampling events.
- Watched Amanda running after a Vervet monkey while threatening it with a stick...he was trying to steal our lunch.
- Learned that the hippos travel up and down the Mara River between 1900hrs and 2100hrs.
- Changed our fuel filter.
- Replaced the driver's side door glass....the one I accidentally broke last week.
- Had a baboon try to steal a 10 pound propane cylinder...he dragged it about 10 meters from our tent until Filliman caught up to him (what does a baboon need with a propane cylinder?).
- Had our field assistant go on sick leave.
- Captured a storm event on one of our data loggers that drove dissolved oxygen in the river down to 20%, turbidity up past the capability of our probe (well past 6000 NTU), and that resulted in a die off of elephant fish.
- Processed 34 water samples.
- Used up half a roll of duct tape.
4 comments:
Amazing! Love this update.
I love reading your updates, I'm glad the universe is keeping y'all busy.
Ahh, field work... This post inspired me to come up with a similar list of my own, the highlights of which were: mud wrestling a 2 ft snapping turtle, out-swimming a cottonmouth (and then lightening!), playing nurse maid to two baby otters, and unintentionally teaching my GPS how to swim.
We still ain't right! And, if we're lucky, we'll never be :)
You guys are so hard core!! I love it! Glad to see you've managed to keep JJ alive!! Keep up the good work in Africa!
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