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I'm a 27 year-old from Los Angeles, California, with a BA from Tufts University and an MSc in Primate Conservation from Oxford Brookes University. My passion is primates, so I like to spend my time in remote areas traveling, researching, and rehabilitating apes and monkeys! Email me directly at AmandaClaireHarwood@gmail.com Also check out my other blog http://www.AmandaHinArgentina.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Lake Malawi


My day off last Sunday was spent with three other girls here at Senga Bay, Lake Malawi. It’s a huge freshwater lake that takes up like half of this country. It was about a two hour drive from the Lilongwe. We spent the day lounging on the beach, swimming a bit, and getting spectacularly sunburned. It was a nice little vacation, with some spectacular clouds. I've been just trying to take advantage of this semi-cushy life in civilization before I head to the bush soon.

Interestingly, the lake is swimming, no pun intended, with a parasite that can easily just absorb through your skin. So about three months after swimming in the lake, everyone is advised to take a special anti-parasitic drug.







On the way back home, we got a call about a sick duiker from a nearby park, and picked him up. Sadly he was in rough conditions and died upon return to the centre. Even on days off, we rescue animals!


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