{"id":1399,"date":"2019-05-08T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2020-01-17T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T19:43:42","slug":"between-bees-leopards-and-a-horse-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wander-world.de\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Between bees, leopards and a horse box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello, Bonjour and Salibonani<\/b> from Cawston Wildlife Reserve, Northern Matabeleland where I stay for about 2,5 months and help with the horses.  Before I took my very first day off, I had to accomplish and survive one last task during the evening hours, where it is pitch dark in Zimbabwe: helping to move one of the beehives away from the workshop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bees had decided to sattle down<\/strong> in a huge box and now they need to be moved. I have to say that bees are most likely the animals I am the most afraid of, this seemed therefore to be the hardest task to accomplish here. Luckily, I was left in the car, being told to be the driver. I think I can handle that! So all I did was waiting for the bees to be carried out in a box, being put on the back of the truck and drive off. I have no idea how the bees were all put into that box but I guess I am just happy they are. Off I drove, unfortunately I forgot what I was told: should I drive slow or fast? Well, I have this box full of bees in the back of the car with Chris holding tight to them. Poor him, I decided I better drive fast through the darkness on the sand pad so we would reach our goal quickly. This was however not the right decision as all the bouncing apparently made it hard to hold on to the bee box and I was shouted at from the back of the car to slow down. I believe it took me a while and a couple of gear changes until I realized I have to slow down now. We finally arrived at the place where the bees were released into their new home. I just hoped they would please stay outside and not come inside the car. Not quite sure if this was the case during the drive back. Happy I survived this mission, I just had to learn that we will do this for a second time as so many bees are in the workshop. Oh my dear, a second time moving the bees and driving through the pitch dark to find a spot to release the second swarm. Everything went fine, without any troubles or stings. I really think I deserve my next day off to just relax!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yes, the next day was my day off <\/b>and I wanted to finally sleep in. That didn\u2019t work quite as good as I wanted, at 5.45am I was wide awake and finally got up a few minutes later. I spent the day enjoying the view on the waterhole from my happy place. Really great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n