Another week passed at Siavonga Eagles rest doing pretty much the same range of work with focus on reupholstering some chairs with a fairly uncooperative staple gun. The highlight of the week is related to ChaliP the security guard at… Read More »Eagles Rest week 2 & Song Recording 22 May 2021
Fishing is a key source food for the local folk in Siavonga, Lake Kariba, with fishermen going out daily in their homemade dug out canoes to set and check nets. Julie caught these images whilst on a late afternoon boat… Read More »Siavonga Fishing 16 – 22 May 2021
Puros Canyon heading west (toward the coast) is a spectacular canyon route – here is a short clip of one section We left the canyon just before the skeleton coast national park and moved across the Ganias plains towards into… Read More »Crossing the Ganias Plains into Hoanib Valley – 30 April 2021
Our Saturday was spent driving to Chirundu for shopping and then a touch of exploring down the Zambezi (The featured pic is Jules at Nsofu Lodge) The Shoprite in Chirundu was a delight to experience SA brands and to shop.… Read More »Chirundu & Lower Zambezi 15 May 2021
We signed up for a workaway project with https://www.workaway.info/ and our first project was at Eagles Rest where we worked for 3 weeks.. Eagles Rest consists of 4 hectares of beautiful countryside, nestled in a secluded wooded area on the… Read More »Eagles Rest – Siavonga 9 to 14 May 2021
After leaving Etambura we drove on the flat wilderness areas of the Kaokaveld along tracks and riverbed driving was the order of the day We came across about 10 offroad motorbike riders and their three back up vehicles – looked… Read More »Canyons & River Bed Driving 29 April 2021
The road up to Mazabuka was good but then it deteriorates just after Coffeeberry – The road is being worked on so there are many diversions. We stopped at Coffeeberry cafe after Mazabuka – it has gone down since our… Read More »Getting to Siavonga – 8 May 2021
We came across this skeleton and drove past without stopping and claimed it to be zebra but then a debate ensued as to whether it was a a small giraffe or zebra After driving down the Hourasib river bed and… Read More »Zebra or small giraffe? 28 April 2021
These stone men – or rather, sculptures – are scattered all over the country, and known as The Lone Men of Kaokoland. Each figure has an aluminium disc attached to it, with a number and a message as to where… Read More »Lone men 28 April 2021
After getting a top-up of LP Gas from Ankufa Supplies (Worth noting for future) in Livingstone we started moving along the T1 highway heading north Our intention was to stay at a campsite near Choma which is 200km north about… Read More »Mazabuko – The Moorings Campsite – 7 May 2021
