Memorial Day or Mango Day?
Beard growing contest update: We’ve not actually compared beards lately. Evan clearly would be in the lead but he had a head start because I think he had his first beard as a third trimester fetus and hasn’t shaved since. Not to brag, but my beard is coming along quite nicely. This morning I found a couple hornbill nests just below my chin and had to shoo the birds out of there.
On this Memorial Day back home, we went to a mango farm here. It wasn’t mango season, but they were harvesting oranges and grapefruit. We got some free fruit (the rejects that seem pretty dang perfect to us) and it was good eatin’. At least it was healthy. We ate a lot again today. Did I mention the weight loss program will not start until we’re back in the States? I believe I’ve eaten enough to supply all my cell’s lipid bilayers enough building blocks for a few years. I will now say with just a couple days to go, nobody’s gotten sick. Praise the Lord. Dr. Ron was down for a couple days early in the tour, but I’m pretty sure that might have been due to him missing his cows at home. He does miss his cows. Um, oh, yeah, but FIRST he misses his wife…then he missed his cows. Definitely in that order.
We drove to a game lodge and had another game drive tonight. Saw sable antelope, ostriches, a couple jackels (Maybe the same ones we shot at last week. Maybe not. See how everything is coming together in the blog at the end? Not unlike a Seinfeld episode).
A guide talked to us about the game farm and raising animals and poaching. There have been 90 rhinos poached in South Africa just this year. It’s insane. The poachers fly in with helicopters, find the rhinos, dart them to kill them (because it’s quieter than a gun), land the chopper, cut off the horn and take back off. So if they own their own helicopters, or hire folks to do it, you know it’s lucrative. Most of these horns go to Asia and are sold as an aphrodisiac. As a seemingly ‘advanced’ human race, it’s amazing how ignorant we are of some things. People really need rhino horn dust for their problems? Maybe they should try rhino dung rolled in regular dirt dust. That might work just as well and would save a species from extinction.
We pigged out again tonight and retired early. Gotta get sleep tonight because it’s a big day tomorrow: SHOPPING!! (Well, whup dee doo). But again, I’m sure it’s just for gifts for the loved ones. Nothing for ourselves. (And if you believe that, George Strait has some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you).
DrG
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