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PS the pic is of me at Botswana's Makgadikgadi Pans - a place I have the privilege to visit on a regular basis |
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Posted:May 15, 2013 12:24 am
Last Updated:Aug 17, 2015 8:23 am
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hi all - Jasmine - I have checked and the comment thing is in the proper position! lol
Im back for a while - haven't backed up my Blackberry so piccies are older ones - this of me with a Caracal - or African Lynx last year - in the porky days - although having said that I have been gaining some again so its time to cut the carbs out of the diet - strangely enough thats easier to do on the road than at home!
Im home for a while (or a bit of ones on offer....) - May is a Skinny month - but thats OK - I went hunting at Karoocpl's farm for a few days - had a cool time and then on to my 25 year school reunion which was a blast to say the least - I got to spend time with my old school mate who now lives on Grand Cayman and we havent seen one another in years - so that was good to say the least.!
I ought to be blogging a bit this week as I have some time!
Have fun
Chris
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home for a short while
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Posted:Apr 19, 2013 12:25 am
Last Updated:Apr 23, 2013 1:17 am
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Hi all - I havent been blogging - simply because I havent been home - I will be buying myself a laptop once a few financial hurdles have been crossed ie car related stuff etc.
I am floating along as I tell Jasmine in our none too often phone calls - all is good and life carries on a pace.!
I goign to try and load some recent photos of trips this morning - see if I can get it right!
Chris
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travels and all that
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Posted:Feb 21, 2013 11:07 pm
Last Updated:May 21, 2013 11:04 pm
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Well, Im home for a few days - I finish this afternoon with my Austrian tour group - lovely people - a little stingy with the tips but nice people - makes a huge difference to how I enjoy a tour and what I can give people in terms of additional inputs and interesting things to taste see and do.
it is also deciduous fruit harvest season so I often hope off the coach and buy boxes of goodies for folks to taste along the route which everyone seems to enjoy!
Wouldnt it be nice if we could do a tour and taste different lifestylers along the way? Experience all the different flavours all along our routes?
Hee hee - thats just me and my sense of humour 
Chris
PS this is an African Penguin - sphensiscus demersus - the only pengin specie endemic to Africa's shoreline - its range s from Swakopmund in Namibia (on the West Coast) to Port Elizabeth on the East coast of South Africa - inquisitive little buggers swim hundreds of Km to see their fellow Penguins and to feed - we recorded one swim (after an oil slick) of 800km in 11 days - that little penguin stands 30cm high only!!
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Technical comments.... etc etc
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Posted:Jan 23, 2013 12:21 am
Last Updated:Feb 21, 2013 11:08 pm
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OK - somehow commenting got switched off on my blogs - PLEASE go and comment if you wish - I have changed setting (again) and gone on to edit settings on the existing ones - Sorry about that.
4Jasmine thanks for helping hon
Chris
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The University of Robben Island
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Posted:Jan 22, 2013 2:06 am
Last Updated:Feb 21, 2013 11:09 pm
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Well, the Other pic I had taken yesterday was of me at the entrance to a cave in the Lime-stone quarry where many were made to work during their incarceration - notably suffering permanent damage to their eyes - Mandela's tear ducts and eyes for example were never to work properly again. to this day you may not use a flash to photograph him.
entrance to the quarry is prohibited - we got to go in and go to the cave.
Inside the cave during rainy days and lunch breaks - the inmates shared knowledge - and taught one another all manner of things - hence the name - the University of Robben Island.
Chris
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Robben Island
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Posted:Jan 22, 2013 1:56 am
Last Updated:Jan 23, 2013 4:19 am
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Yesterday I had the rare privilege to be taken on a small private trip around Robben Island - and got to see stuff we never get to see anymore.
Robben Island was where the male, non-white political apartheid era prisoners (as well as normal convicts) were kept - Nelson Mandela was one of them - Robert Sobukwe was also one of them - Sobukwe was detained under a special Clause named after him - in a house in solitary for several years. his visited him a few times and the pic is of me in the bedroom where they slept.
the public arent normally allowed in to this part of the World Heritage site
Chris
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Johannesburg
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Posted:Jan 14, 2013 1:10 am
Last Updated:Jan 23, 2013 12:19 am
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well, my first tour of the year starts tonight in Johannesburg tonight (monday 14 Jan)
I am - I confess - looking forward to touring again after a month off - last year was a nice and busy one and I did well out of it - and look fwd to the same again this year!
so if I am very quiet - you know why - Work! having said that - I am going to get a laptop this year - I need to be able to do all my admin en route and with a schedule like mine - one tour often goes directly into the next so getting it all up to date all the time is what is important.
anyway - a windy warm day in Cape Town - a ffew last things to do before I leave.
I look fwd to messages etc
Ciao
Chris
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Posted:Jan 9, 2013 4:43 am
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2013 11:06 pm
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well, the Falls seasonally are dry - but in their main season you cant get anywhere near hear.
One of those things that had to be done!
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Falls no 2
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Posted:Jan 9, 2013 4:40 am
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2013 11:07 pm
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well - this is a second pic
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Victoria Falls
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Posted:Jan 9, 2013 4:38 am
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2013 11:05 pm
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the Photo is of a Pool I went for a swim in a little while ago - its on the lip of the Victoria Falls - this from the Zambian side.
I decided it looked good so I went for a walk across and went for a swim - I will see if I can download a few more snaps of it - fun it was .
I get to go to all these lovely spots and mostly with staid elderly folk - the other side of me loves jumping in feet first!
Chris
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a new face pic
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Posted:Jan 8, 2013 3:18 am
Last Updated:Feb 21, 2013 11:10 pm
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Right - It dawned on me that a new face pic was in order so here goes - taken while on the last trip whilst stopped ofr brekkie - ok so I was chewing and am not a human/chipmunk hybrid....
chris
PS I was in the Town of Sutherland that day en route to the observatory.
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And on matters of the body...
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Posted:Jan 8, 2013 2:44 am
Last Updated:Feb 3, 2013 10:12 pm
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Due to my Hyper thyroidism - i now have a new Bod - I lost a rather cool amount of weight and i'm very prod of myself!
Thats me btw... A little blurry but my phone wasnt being nice when I tried it!
and I turned 43 yesterday so Im more than happy with the state of the "Nation.."
Dont do anything I wouldn't do
chris
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