This is a fantastic blog written by Gerlinde Meuller, a recent volunteer on our Sri Lanka Elephant volunteering programme. The pictures look amazing!
For my gap-year, I decided to be a volunteer for two weeks from November 11th to December 13th of 2015. This was just the right thing! It was a great time I had at the Sri Lanka project and in the Field-house and I learned so much about nature and the problems of locals and animals. I am happy, I had the chance to participate and contribute a little bit to the project.
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The Field-house is a nice open house, located on a hill, overlooking a big lake, known locally as the Karawgas Wewa. These lakes are large man-made water bodies and they are known as tanks. I loved the place very much, the nature, the atmosphere and the ever changing scenery of the sky were just great there, especially in the morning or after heavy rain.
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Going to the various different places to do transects was always an adventure (it was the rainy season!)
Field Scout, Sarath, he is the best driver I know, managed all situations in a brilliant way and we had fun going through water and massive potholes!
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We would observe elephants passing by on several days. This was always very exciting! Everyone wanted to see them!
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Carrying sand for the sand traps up the hill and preparing the sand-traps made us sweat a lot. So we loved to have a bath in the tank afterwards!
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While putting up the beehive fences we would sometimes spot some interesting animals.
Thank you everyone for a great time!
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