Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Today's Field Trip
Today the kids and I visited a watering hole in Botswana!!! We saw birds(I don't know what kind) a gazelle of some sort, and a warthog. It was all courtesy of a great live web cam set up through National Geographic which my friend Ruth told me about. There are also links to see past action at the watering hole since the 6 hour time difference makes viewing during prime animal visiting hours less then optimal for small kids and sleep deprived moms. It has been lots of fun checking in from time to time to see what, if anything is happening and we have been able to check off science and geography on today's homeschool list since we have discussed animals and their need for water, where Botswana is and why just after lunch here it is already dark at the watering hole. So take a free trip on the wild side and all of you late night owls tell me what you see at 2 or 3 in the morning EST when viewing should be prime.
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It's a country in Southern Africa. The camera is at a watering hole on a game preserve there. We have been viewing since 6 am and have seen warthogs, elephants (including babies), gazelle, zebra and ostriches. One of the coolest parts though is the sound, late last night when all there was to see was bugs flying in the light of the lens I had the sound on while doing some other things on a differnet screen and I found how peaceful the sounds of nature are and how much I miss them here in the city.
just saw a crocodile lunge at a warthog, the wart hog and I both jumped, he got away. We also saw a black backed jackel today and an African fish eagle the other day as well as monitor lizard and alligators.
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