Sign up to get free environmental news updates by email. Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Time to get up. On the return from the loo, I splash some water on my face and brush my teeth. Then I pack my backpack for the day.
Breakfast consists of tea and rusks.
Timm eschews the tea, instead preparing himself a cup of Horlick's, a malt-flavored vitamin and calcium drink, a popular beverage around here. By 7 o'clock, we are in the bakkie and on our way out of the campsite. We drive back out to the main road, then continue for several kilometers down this road before turning southeast toward the area called Slootjiesdam. This is where I am doing most of my work, although other projects are underway in other parts of the greater Paulshoek area. Sors Cloete, a Namaqualand herder.