Start the day skyping and feeling great – amazing how seeing someone’s face, expression substantially shrinks the distance.

Spend the day digging up termite’s fungal comb, which are located about two feet underground, the size of a basketball, look like a huge brain, and are made up of regurgitated plant material. A bunch of fungus grows all over it, and that's what the termites eat. Break it open and little transparent juvenile termites are inside every small pocket of the fungal comb. The worker termites (‘regular’ sized with yellow body and red head) and soldiers (the big ones with the huge heads) are also scattered throughout.

We take our cues from the aardvarks which dig big holes to get to the termites. The termites relocate (what's left of) the fungal comb near the disturbance, so we often don't have too far to go. Without the aardvark activity we'd be clueless as to where to even start the digging.

While traveling in the field got a great view of a pair of tawny eagles. As one pushes off an Acacia branch to take off the branch broke and she ‘stumbles’ through the air for a bit. First time I saw an eagle look ungraceful. But boy are they beautiful.

On way back see some giraffe tracks. Apparently this one is approximately a women’s size 9.