Wild Damongo!

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Today I woke up at around 9:30am to take a “shower” via a bucket! It’s old school but it definitely gets the job done! Following my shower I snacked on some fruit snacks for breakfast while I waited for my friend Braimah to come take me around Damongo. He knew I wanted to go see some wildlife so he took me to one of the back trails and it did not disappoint!

We saw numerous birds I have never seen before and a few familiar faces in the form of Cattle Egrets, to top it all off I saw some species of Hawk preying upon a snake or lizard on an electric post!  We eventually made it down to the river bed where I got my first glimpse of a crocodile which nearly snagged a bobo bird right out of the air!

Weaver bird nest

After the tour we made our way to the A Rocha office here in Damongo where I met two more colleagues Micha, and James. Both of them are very well versed in the native Flora and Fauna so we had some very good conversations. They seem like very wonderful people and I’m excited to get to work with them! I should also mention that I saw some of first Agama lizards in the rocks beside the office, I was particularly excited about this!

I got my share if puzzled looks today from people, I’m probably the first Obruni (white person)  to come up this way in a long time haha! However the puzzlement quickly turned to smiles and waves especially the children! All in all It was a very welcoming first day in Damongo!

Thanks again to all of you who are reading and following my blog, It means a lot to me! Love and miss you all! God Bless!

“ Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or drink or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”-Matthew 6:25-27