New Doc Arrives

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New doc, Jen has arrived with husband Ed. Really great couple, and coincidently, they’ve done a season at Periche with the Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA), which is the same group Hazel will be working for in Manang next March. HRA have three bases, the third being Everest Base Camp. Jen will be doing Base Camp next year at the same time that we’ll be in Manang, so we’ll see her again at a final get-together (unfortunately Ed isn’t planning on staying the whole 3 months).

Lots for Haz to handover. They get a call from Mfuwe Lodge and Ed and I join them. So while Haz and Jen are doing doctoring stuff, we just lounge around the lodge’s infinity pool and have a good chat. Ian comes over and we look and praise his photos. He gets given a lot of photos from professional photographers who stay at the lodge and I can’t express how jaw-dropping these photos are. Even photos of bog-ordinary Egyptian geese reveal their subtle and beautiful coloring in extraordinary detail.

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