Our first month in Gambia
over already, it has really flown by. We
were up early and sat in the garden when Sue and Jeremy got up. We had breakfast out by the pool and
discussed what they would like to do for the week. As it is their first visit to Gambia
we are planning various ‘tourist type’ trips beginning today with the vulture
feeding. Then Sanaba arrived and he and
Kebba wanted to talk about the work at Naata, Kebba then went out to the shops
and ended up ringing us to say that there was some wood on ‘special price’ and
as we would need some for Naata toilet roof could we buy it today. He sent a boy to collect the money and by
that time we were too late for the vultures, 11.30 being their feeding time
which only lasts under half an hour. We
decided to go to the crocodile pool instead.
Katchikally or the crocodile pool is at Bakau, about 15 kilometres from
us. We all got in the truck and set off
to Bakau. The pool is a major tourist
attraction as you can stroke Charlie, a tame or very well fed crocodile. There is also a small museum about Gambian
culture, musical instruments, JuJu belief and traditional costumes, a section
about the history of Gambia
and a small section about the Commonwealth make up the display. We spent some time in the museum and then
walked around to where the crocodiles are usually to be seen. Charlie, the crocodile of choice for today, was
sitting in the shade looking like a plastic model; other crocodiles were in the
pool or lying around in the sun. Jeremy
was persuaded to touch Charlie, but Sue kept her distance. We completed our visit and returned to the
tourist area where we had Sunday lunch at Samba’s, and then we drove back down
the coast and onto the beach near to where we live to have a walk on the sand,
and a beer or two in one of the local beach bars. We watched the sun going down and returned
home just before dark where we sat in the garden and chatted before an early
night.
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