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"A Busy Off Season Draws to a Close"
- 30 April 2010 00:00
The five month off season for Remote Africa Safaris is now drawing to a close. Supposedly the rains are over though the heavens do not agree; scattered showers have fallen every other day for the last week. Fortunately the rain has not affected our newly graded game viewing loops within the park. John, Stephen, Alex and the lads have been “playing tractor games” to great effect increasing our available road network daily, smoothing out the rainy season hippo tracks. Driving around yesterday morning checking the roads was a treat.
Everything is green with plenty of water pools around. Healthy puku, impala and zebra were everywhere. Two giraffe had been strolling down the new road leaving tracks and droppings behind them. Nile monitors dashed away as we drew up beside a lagoon filled with radiant water lilies and one great white egret. The yellow billed stork colony is full of action with nest repairs underway, hungry chicks to feed and noisy parental smacking of bills as they communicate with their young.
Yesterday a female puku raced into the Tafika vegetable garden clearly running in panic from a predator. Later during the night watchmen spotted 6 lions strolling across the lawn, on the prowl for dinner. We hope the puku keeps out of their way.
The vegetable garden is looking good and ready to feed hungry guests with freshly picked salads.
Our time away from Tafika was busy and active – Christmas in Kenya with the rest of the Coppinger Clan (12 in all), a fun marketing trip in UK, France and Holland and a brief but most interesting few days holiday in Iceland. Little did we know that a glacier on which we went for a hike would within a few short months cause chaos around the globe and affect millions of people!! Easter found us in Cape Town, where John, Christine and Jenny ran the 21km Two Oceans half marathon, all coming in under 2 hours. We stayed with Bryan and Athlyn, who live just around the corner from the start of the race. We then attended Christine’s graduation ceremony in Grahamstown where she was awarded a BSC in Ichthyology and Zoology. She has now commenced an honours degree in Ichthyology and Jenny is in 3rd year of her Fine Arts degree. Our daughters have come a long way from the grass hut home school at Tafika.
The earth is presenting the tourism industry with huge challenges this year with - ash clouds and slow recovering economies, but Remote Africa remains a natural haven to reconnect and get back into the flow. Tafika opens on Sunday and everything is coming together beautifully with the hammocks going up today, the sun loungers ready for our first welcome guests to “chill” besides the river and absorb the peace.
Our guides game viewing diaries will start up again next week on our website www.remoteafrica.com so don’t forget to check them periodically.
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| 07 May 2010 : 16:31 | We always looking forward to read Your reports and the game viewing diaries.
We wish You a perfect start for the new season.
Warm regards from Germany
Agnes and Bernd | | No Website. | | Posted By: Agnes Beis, Bernd Stammkötter |
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