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May 2nd 2014

Published: May 2nd 2014

It is May 2, four months since I took my holiday at the end of the school year 2013. Right now, it’s 5 days before national elections and 5 days after Freedom Day which celebrates the country’s first democratic elections twenty years ago when Nelson Mandela was elected president. Back in December, I was in Cape Town during the week following Nelson Mandela’s death. We went to the Robben Isla... Read Full Entry

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Game Drive

Stopping for drinks and snacks with Justice, our driver/guide. Justice has keen eyes, patience with the bird expert among our group, and a great store of knowledge about the wildlife and plant life in Madikwe. Wild birds that we saw at Madikwe are: Lilac-breasted Roller; European Bee-eater; Redbilled Oxpecker. Also learned that the Grey Lourie is called the Go-Away bird for its distinctive call. I am always hearing it at my village and when I described it to some learners they could do perfect imitations of the bird's call.

Wild dogs

Just finished off an impala meal. Impala are a deer/antelope.

Kudu

See how the white stripes camouflage him in the long grasses

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Rhino

Zebra in the muddy road

We had a downpour the night before, and came back soaked through. 4 wheel drive got us through.

Giraffe

View of Amphitheatre at our Drakensberg lodging

Drakensberg lodging

Baboon on our hike at the hotel

Rural view

Women in a prayer meeting

Beautiful landscape

2nd May 2014

judy bryant
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Carolyn, your pictures are so wonderful--I see a fantastic calendar. Your comments about the Mandela memorials were interesting and insightful, and your comment about the nanny who missed Christmas with her own family makes me think of the US and what many childcare workers are expected to do. We were just wondering about you at our April book club. Your ears must have been burning!

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