By the time we had finished, the only surveyor missing was Solomon, who appeared shortly after 9 on his bike.
A short break followed when R informed us that a troop of baboons was marching past her tent, of which Rach had to get pictures.
So excited about starting, we all then marched off to the forest leaving our rangers to run after us.
Finding our first quadrant, we marked it on the GPS and set about measuring the 3 or so trees within this highly distrubed and overgrazed area.
Still unsure as to how the GPS could be used, I figured out a way that would do, and we headed on tot he next quadrant location.
En-route there were several stops when Solomon had to repeat an explanation of a phenomenon so that it could be filmed. Soon enough we were at the next quadrant, this time in thicker forrest. We marked out the area with the tape and, in a slightly more organised fashion, set about pairing up to log species and disturbance of which there was still plenty. Finally completing this area (we were getting quicker) we headed onto the next and final quadrant of this transect, filming all the way.
The final quadrant had quite a lot of disturbance and was done fairly quickly, so we were soon heading off to the top of the next transect. By the time we got near it it was after 2 o'clock, and we decided we could not do another transect today. This was due to the extremely slow start as none of our recruits knew what was going on!
Anyway, back to base and our chef had arrived early and got the fire going. We asked him to wait to cook while we got ourselves rested and made a corn snack.
Whilst we watched our chef cook tea, we observed a samburu shepherd, about 10 years old, struggle to control his heard as they caught wind of our discarded food pile and were not going to part from it easily.
On we went to eat another excellent meal and head for bed.
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