Gilmour Dickson
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Okay it's not all game drives, G&Ts and crisply pressed Khaki
I am in a camp that needs SERIOUS attention and we have guests arriving next week. Last days has been sanding, plumbing, struggling with a VSAT system and ferrying a camp full of furniture across the flooded Busanga plains (by canoe and porters!). We have so much to get done it is scary. However before reaching here we managed to squeeze in some fishing and beers on the river...
Julia stayed in the nearest working camp to organise the despatch of everything and tomorrow arrives in the helicopter (how cool is that) - I spent 3.5hrs to drive a troopy load of solar heater parts, she will do the same trip in 15 mins
Basically happy as a pig in a field of strawberries!
Last bit of relaxation before the mayhem:
two of our new colleagues, very cool people (a doctor who is also a camp manager, in fact I am trying to get her camp ready... and her husband who is a Lion researcher. Julia peering at an African Finfoot or something!)
Kafue River at dawn:
Last one. View from my temporary house yesterday morning at dawn. As I took this the elephants were browsing 30m from my door. Sanding down some fittings later that day with Puku antelope bouncing around in the near distance I was just thinking Wow!
Tomorrow I will try and get the chance for some vehicle related stuff. Interestingly here in the plains/swamps it is Landrovers that reign supreme, but more on that later!!!
I am in a camp that needs SERIOUS attention and we have guests arriving next week. Last days has been sanding, plumbing, struggling with a VSAT system and ferrying a camp full of furniture across the flooded Busanga plains (by canoe and porters!). We have so much to get done it is scary. However before reaching here we managed to squeeze in some fishing and beers on the river...
Julia stayed in the nearest working camp to organise the despatch of everything and tomorrow arrives in the helicopter (how cool is that) - I spent 3.5hrs to drive a troopy load of solar heater parts, she will do the same trip in 15 mins
Basically happy as a pig in a field of strawberries!
Last bit of relaxation before the mayhem:
two of our new colleagues, very cool people (a doctor who is also a camp manager, in fact I am trying to get her camp ready... and her husband who is a Lion researcher. Julia peering at an African Finfoot or something!)
Kafue River at dawn:
Last one. View from my temporary house yesterday morning at dawn. As I took this the elephants were browsing 30m from my door. Sanding down some fittings later that day with Puku antelope bouncing around in the near distance I was just thinking Wow!
Tomorrow I will try and get the chance for some vehicle related stuff. Interestingly here in the plains/swamps it is Landrovers that reign supreme, but more on that later!!!