Finally in Africa. Have spent the last few days in the main rest camp here in Kruger getting paperwork signed, finding our equipment, etc. Kruger is a pretty wild place. You can sit at a restaurant and have a latte, drink a glass of wine, and have a pizza while watching hippos play in the river. Stark contrast indeed. It really hits your brain on a different level that you are in one of the wildest parks on the planet but can have just about any modern convenience that you want in the rest camps. It's good for blogging but not quite as "wild" as I expected. That said, you drive out the gates and see giraffes, baboons, kudu, impalas, and warthog and you know you're in the bush.

So Allison and I are off to our home for the next several months. We leave the main rest camp (Skukuza) today and head to Satara, the rest camp that we will be living in. Its about a two hour drive north and home to the largest concentration of lions in the park. So that should make for some interesting field work. Looking forward to getting into work. All of the runup and paperwork, etc. has kind of gotten me down and I'm ready to get settled and down to work. Will post again in a couple of weeks when we are back to internet access. Hopefully will have some good pics by then. Cheers!