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Reptiles & Eagles


We woke up again to another sunny day with a refreshing wind. We gathered ready to go at 8am but unfortunately the bus broke down and didn’t arrive until after 9.30. 

Then after almost an hour of travelling, Diane rang us and told us that the youth conference we were taking part in had been cancelled. This sometimes happens in zambia.

After returning to base, we had coffee and digestives with Diane and then decided to go to Kalimba Reptile Park. We had a guide who told us all about the snakes. Some of the group had their picture taken with a python round their neck. The brave ones were Michael, Victoria, Lyndsey, Rachel, holly T, Ashley, Alice and Phil.

Then we were shown baby crocodiles which had been reared from eggs at the park.

We were also shown large tortoises. Again the group were allowed to hold one. Christine, Jenny, Holly T, Holly B and Alice got some cute pictures.

Lastly we went to see the adult crocodiles who get fed twice a week on live chickens. They live for up to 70 years and their eggs are buried in the river bank. The keepers then collect them and incubate them and out the babies into the nursery’s to rear.

After a picnic lunch we went to a football match in a local township. A local Zambian team, the Green Eagles played against a South African team Orlando Pirates in the first leg of the CAF Champions League tie. Despite the 400 places between the two teams in the African club ranking, the lower ranked Eagles won 1-0. The boys were very excited, the girls not so at the 8000 people in the stadium. I think people were more interested in us as only 15 white people in the stadium (us and the SA goal keeper.)

After football we went to a restaurant called Marlin where we had some fabulous food with Diane Cusick despite the power cut.

Philip then did his emotional devotion on Deuteronomy 8 v1-16 on discipline and God testing us through suffering. We finished off the night with a game of family fortunes won by the ‘Hills’ family made up of Lyndsey, Ashley, Victoria, Holly B and Rachel.

(Christine)
















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