(Paul and Desiree Gardiner) & (Alexander Gert) On meerkat safari in South Africa.

Hi every one

What a beautiful morning. I'm so glad the people that forecast the weather dont have a clue what they are doing, otherwise this would have been a cold overcast morning. Well as you can see it turned out a beaut. Had 3 very nice people on the tour, all from the land down under. All the meerkats behaved even Moner sat there all quiet not even one sound out of him. Only dodged me bigtime, we were standing talking and the next moment they ducked into the thick shrubs and then they were gone, no sight or sound.

Ok to give you some insight, My name is Devey and i do the Meerkat tours on a farm ( De Zeekoe ) just outside Oudtshoorn in the little Karoo South Africa. I started doing these tours in November 2009 and it is not called meerkat magic but Meerkat adventures (www.Meerkatadventures.co.za).

You might have heard all the story's, but i will give it to you straight. I took over the tours, not because my predecessor was bad at what he did but just that he became unreliable, and the owners of De Zeekoe did nothing wrong to him but he brought it on himself. So i hope we cleared that out of our way.

When i took over in november their were only 6 meerkats in the group wich i named Liefie ( dominant female), Cindi (the only mature female other than liefie), Molly (a juvenile meerkat )

and then 3 babys aprox 13 weeks old. A couple of days later i noticed the precense of a mature male meerkat that was Very shy and obviously new to the group, and because he complained everytime he saw people i named him Moner.

Then on 25 January 2010 Liefie had 6 babys and all of them are still surviving.

That is all for today, hope to have more news tomorrow.