Although it is Sunday today we were assigned to work. Today's job was Orangs, it was so great to see them all again and I recognised them all straight away. Om, who is an eight year old male has grown a lot and Peter one of the adult males is rapidly turning into a dominant male. I was working with Kate today, who lives in the house across the street. She is from New Zealand. We managed to get the cages cleaned in record time so had lots of time to sit around watching them. Luckily for us the babies were not going to jungle school today so we got to watch them play together which was very cute, even if one did stick his bits through the cage and try to wee on me.
After lunch we had project work to do on a board walk that will eventually become a night trail and open to visitors. It leads from the crocodiles up to some new enclosures that will require refurbishment but will mean that the gibbons or macaques can be moved out of quarentine over the coming months. This was quite a relaxing task and was in the shade which is a god send as at the moment the temperature is exceeding 32degrees 24hrs a day. We had to scrub the moss off the planks and then hopefully we will get to paint it before our time is up.
Following a few hours of this we headed back to the Orangs for afternoon feeding time, we got to hand them bananas, which was just perfect to end our working day. We all headed back to our houses to prepare dinner and discuss the various rashes, bits and scratches we were now collecting. The Permanent volenteers (or hippies as they are called by the locals) give any rash that can't be diagnosed as 'skank rash'. All three of us now have one of these on various parts of our body.
We finished today with Kate's 20th Birthday over at their house. Got to cuddle a few kittens who have taken up home there and then we all called it a night
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