Monday 9 December 2013

1.12.13 Sunday. December already!



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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