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Hello everybody, we are now in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania, where we are about to board the Lindblad ship called the National Geographic Explorer. We are traveling in the Indian Ocean, where we will visit the fabled islands of Mozambique, Zanzibar, the Comoros, and the Seychelles.
 
One of the things we got to do a lot of on this trip was snorkeling. Some of the reefs here don't have the amazing colors like the coral in some other places around the world, like Australia, because a few years ago they had a lot of coral bleaching. This was caused by a combination of global warming (the sea temperature getting warmer) and the tsunami from four years ago. The fish are amazing though and they have some of the coolest colors I've ever seen. We saw tons of tropical fish.
 

Hello out there! I just came from Namibia where we went to the Cheetah Conservation Fund--CCF for short. At CCF, they take care of cheetahs when they can't survive in the wild, like if they are orphaned as babies and haven't been taught how to hunt by their mother. They also breed Anatolian herding dogs, which they give to farmers to protect their cattle. The dogs are trained to scare cheetahs away by barking at them real loud. They grow up to be really huge dogs. Since the dog scares away the cheetahs, the farmers don't shoot them. So that's the purpose of CCF ... protecting the cheetahs.

When we arrived, we met three five-month old baby cheetahs. Their names were Quasar (the leader), Seria (the only girl in the group), and Phoenix (the independent one). We even got to feed them little chunks of meat. When they would eat it, there would be a little juice on our hands, so they would lick it off. Cheetahs' tongues feel like sandpaper and it tickles a lot. Whenever we got to see and feed the baby cheetahs we called it "cubby time." And we were really lucky because we had cubby time every day we were there, which was super fun.