Matopos, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe |
The Best Place to be in The Matobo Hills
The most exciting news for quite some time concerning the Park, is that a group of four White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) paid us a visit this past week and to show their approval, they have left their visiting cards. The usual Leopard, Warthog, Kudu, Baboon along with the other resident smaller animal tracks were in great profusion. Just goes to show that even the animals approve that the best place to be in the Matobo Hills, is in "The Heart of Scouting". This past week... The photo of the boulder is quite amazing! And we all thought it was only erent Scouts who encouraged boulders to roll down kopjies! I remember rocking a few boulders of that size! But we were never able to dislodge them. Great to get news from the most magic place on Earth every week! Cheers for now! Wade Begemann + Good afternoon Norman, Njelele 'the scared hill'. Thank you for the lastest Gordon Park News Letter and attachments. I was interested to see the mention of Njelele. Is this the same Njelele (cave of the Rain Godess, 'Umlimo') near Toghwana Dam, where the local woman population, when passing the cave used to leave a grommet of woven grass as a tribute to the Rain Godess? There were a number of fantastic cave paintings in the cave and the most outstanding was the painting of the giraffe. It is always a pleasure to get the latest happenings in the scouting field and the National Parks attachment certaainly brought us up to date with the Rhino poaching problems being encountered both in Zimbabwe and South Africa. This type of information is not mentioned on the local news in the UK. I have noted the two web sites mentioned in the Parks letter and will be visiting them shortly. It is sad to read about the desperate situation that you are encountering with the lack of rain. We on the other hand are having a months rainfall in one day and is causing large areas of flooding. The river Svern which flows on the edge of Worcester town centre, was reported to be 9 inches below the pavement level and with all the rain up country, no doubt the level will continue to rise. Fortunately there are flood barriers in place and should restrict the overflow. Needless to say this does not seem to trouble the swan and duck population which take the fast flowing water in their stride. Do hope that you do not have problems with the fires this winter. Can remember fighting fires with Arthur Edwards at his home near Whitestones School. All the best and thank you once more for a superb and appreciated up-date. Roy Pilkington. Worcester UK. + Communicating with us at MIC 2012 The 2012 Michigan International Camporee is a little over a week away. I imagine the Queens Royal College Scouts are very involved celebrating the 100th anniversary of your Scout group and the Valdemar Atterdag Group is involved in Jamboree Denmark. We are sorry that Denmark, Trinidad & Tobago, and Zimbabwe will not be represented at MIC 2012. However, we would like to invite your Scouts to interact with MIC 2012 participants while we are at camp. To do that, they should go to http://2012mic.org/ and link at "My MIC Connect." They can register there to become part of our controlled facebook-like group, see what everyone is doing, and communicate with our participants. You can also visit http://www.micamporee.org/ and see your flags there as past MIC participants Best wishes, Bruce McCrea + "Thought for The Week" the 2012 Olympic Flame is currently being sailed down the Thames to London's Olympic Village for the Opening Ceremony in a few hours time. + Do you have a small/home Business or website? Place your free advert/jump here!
+ Matabeleland Scout Website http://matabele.altervista.org/ + Bulawayo, 27th July 2012 |
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