I woke early and drowsily listened to a choir of singing birds. We took the clown car to the Spar grocery store where we loaded up on food and drinks for the week. Being an island and needing most things to be shipped in, almost everything is expensive. We paid the equivalent of $3 Canadian for six eggs, $2 for a can of corn and $6 for a small …
I had no idea where Mauritius was when John first suggested we go, so for those of you who are like me, here’s the scoop. Mauritius is an African country that is a volcanic island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 1,132 kms beside Madagascar. It is Africa’s most densely populated country so traffic can get quite busy at times. French is the main language but people …
The fog is thick as ….lets just say it’s really thick when we get up at 5:30am. We pack and meet Chicho and Peter for breakfast at 6:30. Peter always served wieners at our breakfast and today they have wieners in the breakfast buffet. It must be a Tanzanian thing. Water buck are eating grass beside the terrace. We actually get internet so I help Graham put a bit …
It’s dark when I rise. We head out to try and catch some of the migration across the Mara River. The landscape is dotted with horned sculls ,bones and some carcasses. Many of the bones have been picked clean and bleached bright white by the Tanzanian sun but other carcasses are only partially eaten and left to rot.Shawn says that every now and then he gets a brief whiff …
