Weekend on Kariba!!

We've just arrived home this afternoon from a really welcome holiday at lake Kariba on a house boat. Some friends of ours from our congregation have been excited to show us what a lovely place it is and we are so pleased they did! 12 of us shared this house boat! Kariba is actually a dam and is "Huge" one side is Zimbabwe and the other Zambia Both sides have game parks so the captain of our boat spent the weekend parking on small Islands where we sat and watched Hippos, Elephants, Crocodiles, Buck, Fish Eagles it was very special to spend a weekend that close to such amazing animals!! Lester got his fishing Fix and manged to catch two of the biggest fish untill Troy proper went and out done him with a MONSTER tiger fish, It was UGLY!!!! So the weekend was spent with lots of monopoly card games and eating, laughing and watching the wild life so i'll leave you to look at some picutres while i attempt to unpack and repack ready to move rooms tomorrow as our guest room is next to renovated! Hope you all Had a smashing weekend at plymouth x lots o love us xx

This is it!!!!!!!!!! (Its actual name!)

With in seconds of popping out on speed boat we bumped into this family there were 3 other babys smaller then this chap!!

The second they see us they are in the water, mum on her way to our little boat so we're off as we dont' want to damage Les' new speed boat!

Lester pulls in the speed boat

when we told Joss to Hoist the flag he took it literally!

The thumb suckers

We had just watched this chap have a fight so i suppose he needed some refreshments

I'd just missed getting a picture of this hippo Launching himself into the water, twas one big splash

While we're on the subject of hippos again i must tell you one quick story! Lester, Myself, Craig and Les were off out on the speed boat having a late afternoon fish when Lester's fishing line runs and pulls him hard we all yell "reel it in, reel it in" Craig shouts, "its massive it must be a Tiger fish!" at that very second Craigs line starts to pull hard to and then both Lester and Craigs Line snap hard and up pops a  HUGE HIPPO!!!! I tell you we were all in so much shock and need i say so was the poor hippo who i dont think had planned on having his ears Pierced! Thankfully he just left, but i tell you it took us all a while to get over the fact that Lester had caught a hippo!!!

None of us swam on the trip and this is the reason why! Gift, one of the crew told us that he had been working on the boat for 8 years and in that time 5 people had been killed by crocks because they had decided to jump in and go for a swim despite the fact these guys are sat waiting!! Poor Gift said that when people jump in they no longer try to help them as those that often take the boat are drunk and don't listen to the warnings!! Needless to say we all did exactly as we were told!!!!!

Every night we fished and enjoyed "sundowners" this is the kidz on the pontoon

Gift on left stood admiring Troys catch of his life this Tiger fish ripped a hole in troys shirt his teeth were so big!!

 

Anyone for a kiss!?

Dinner on da boat!

William, Gift and George these guys were so lovely, the crew of "This is it!"

Us this morning overlooking Lake Kariba (ITS HUGE!)

Baobab tree

x Thats it for now from us x