5:00am - breakfast
5:20am - departed the Moyers' with Howard Fredrick and David Moyer.
5:30am - dropped David off at his airstrip on Kibebe Farm
(He & Howard are flying to Zambia, but they are carrying too much weight to both take off from David's bush strip at Kibebe)
5:35am - Howard & I depart for Ndule, and the Iringa Airport via Land Rover, where a much longer tarmac strip will provide the added distance needed for David to take off with Howard onboard.
6:15am - stopped at the top of the escarpment north of Iringa to take a photo
6:17am - SUNRISE!
6:30am - arrive at Ndule
6:55am - David arrives
7:00am - Howard loads up, David talks with the tower
(tower = second story room above the staff mess hall)
7:10am - David & Howard depart for Mbeya on their way to do wildlife surveys and mapping in Zambia
7:11am - I depart Ndule for Moyers' home
8:06am - arrive back at Moyers' just as Katrina and Julia are starting school for the day.
I can't remember the last time that I got that much done before 8am!
4 comments:
Oh my goodness, my skin just goes crazy with goosebumps seeing all those beautiful pictures and imagining all the LIFE. I LOVE East Africa in the early morning. I'm SO happy for you two to get to be there and breathe all that glory in. Thank God for me, sometimes I forget to here...
wow, paul! that's beautiful! i would totally get up that early for all of that!!!
give kat a huge hug from me. :)
love you both!
Man, what an adventure. Cherith's sold on the zip line thing. I don't think the rest of the people in our suburb would go for that though...
Hi Paul,
I was actually just searching for items on my grandparents farm, and you - so far as Google tells - appear to have the only photo of Kibebe on the net. Weird seeing that, I think I passed the plane on a walk round the place last summer which included the airstrip.
Anyway, pleasing.
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