It’s been some time now… and I am truly sorry about that. It was pretty hectic in the last months. Additionally, my camera was in for repairs so I wasn’t able to take some nice pictures. There was a huge forest fire on the other side of the mountain only a few hundred metres away. After it had burnt for like two weeks the fire department finally took action and then it was helicopters all day, every day. Flying people and supplies up. Some of them hand those funny water buckets… At one point it was really bad. But hey I was in cape town by the time. Sebastian was here and we had an awesome time… I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. In comparison to our little farm here in the middle of nowhere Cape Town is a pretty busy city. But you have a lot of advantages… like pizza 
And music stores…. bought a couple of cool South African rock and metal cds. Btw: My Afrikaans is getting pretty good
Originally I wanted to write an entry about the wildlife (besides the wolves) in South Africa. Have you ever heard of the Knysna Elephants? There are wild elephants living in the forest around Knysna that nobody has ever seen. The just find droppings and tracks… cool, ne What else.. .oh yeah… At one point I found about 10 different moth types in our bathroom and on one occasion I saw a scorpion that was carrying approximately 20 little baby scorpions on its back… funky stuff.
I still haven’t built my lookout point yet… but today we prepared the poles. We just have to transport them …. those big bastards… I have no idea how we are going to do that.
Over the last few month I have slaughtered about a million calves, hundreds of cows and the occasional horses. Here a nice picture:
A few days back I witnessed a initiation ceremony for a Sangoma, a South African Witch Doctor. We sacrificed a chicken… I am just waiting for the goat ceremony… that’s gonna be messy 
The ticks are keeping me seriously busy: We moved the cubs into their own enclosure and I am busy all the time checking their gums and their eyes. If they go white… put him in the vet cage and boost them with vitamins and the parasite killing medicine. I have 6 cubs left and I am getting really paranoid about it. Well I found a 6 leaf-ed clover…That ought to bring me luck…
So long…
Heiko
P.S.: My new mobile number is: +27 79 7179682
Edit: I was going to upload some pictures but I am getting so frustrated with this bloody internet connexion. 45 minutes and 1.8 MB transfer…. I can’t do it. Next time I am in town I will upload the pictures.
Holy crap, you posted again!
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Great to hear from you, sounds like you’re still having an interesting time down there, to say the least. I’d say the clover’s not just gonna bring you luck, it’s a sign: Six leaves – six cubs.
Over here, things are pretty normal (Apart from Chucky almost being beaten to death in hail storm last week, after we’d had him out on the window sill for like three days. He looks pretty battered, but I think he’ll make it, he’s a fighter
My birthday’s coming up, and it’s gonna be pretty damn weird with you not being here… we’ll have to make up for that when you’re back
Hey, good to hear from you again! I almost thought we lost you there! But well, I guess that’s life … Hope to hear more from you soon!
Cheers, Micha