Friday
Today was the day…
The baboon came to town. Early this morning, we heard it had been at the end of our street by the new build.
And he had been on the mountainside…
Then he sauntered through Fish Hoek and was seen running on 1st Ave behind the Pick n pay centre. The last we heard he was on a tree in a garden on Simon’s Town road. I went for a walk to see…yup…there he was in the tree, enjoying the view, contemplating the meaning of life…
Closer…
He was expected to spend the night in the tree. The monitors were keeping an eye on him. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
It was about a 6+ hour work day.
The weather was really still, so we got a lovely swim in calm water this morning. Then at lunchtime it clouded over and there was a massive clap of thunder that surprised me. There was some lightening, some more thunder, a bit of rain and then it was just cloudy. It’s been a beautiful evening…this kind of evening…this is my view for my blog this evening (although a gust blew the candle out!)
But perhaps the highlight of the day has just happened. We were sitting on the balcony when we heard a couple of rocks falling. We have lots of rocks, so we looked over the side balcony to the steps and there we saw….
KITTENS!!
I rushed down immediately. There was a black and white one which stood still for a minute so I could get a photo…
There was a smaller grey one that had springs in its feet. It bounded up and down the stairs, mewing and greeting and looking excited to see me. Although I got to pick that one up, in no time, it was off. I was ecstatic. I messaged the neighbour to ask if they had got kittens. Before I could reply, I saw the little pair disappear into their back door. I’m so excited. The idea of having cats around makes me happy. I’ve not wanted to get cats because of the caracals but with the dogs next door, perhaps the caracals will stay away. I’m nervous for them though, because the other day I was walking behind our property and came home along the path close to our neighbour’s fence and I saw some droppings there that quite possibly could be caracal’s. This has now sent me off on a trip out back to take a photo of what the internet term’s caracal scat. This is the internet photo…this is form the urban caracal project…fresh caracal scat…
And this is from behind our house…there were two piles…
The project describes it: Wild cat scat has very distinctive characteristics- it should be comprised mostly of hair and bones and it is the largest carnivore scat you will see in Table Mountain. Also, cat scat is very different than dog scat because it has blunt ends that often fall apart to look like a little pile of pellets.
Okay, the kitten story went downhill pretty quickly then! I’m ending and will leave the reader to decide if the two look the same.
Twilight view…
1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Saviour of the world.
The best is yet to come – we are only passing through.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂