Haga Haga beach, on the way to a full moon picnic on the beach
Riaan in his birthday outfit
It was Riaan's birthday and a full moon and perfect weather, so we had a full moon picnic on the beach. Anne baked us a cake and we used big banana leafs for plates.
We had a massive storm last night, some broken windows, lots of trees blew over and poor Greg, our new volunteer flooded. He was in one of the Rondawels (round thatched hut) near the house. Somehow the cement bit at the top of the thatch roof cracked and the rain poured into the Rondawel. Greg is now temporarily living in the house. All and all we welcome the rain, it was really very much needed, but I would be nice if it does not go from extreme to extreme.
Gregory in his Rondawel before the big flood
Our other new volunteer, Pascal Meienberg (he is Swiss) is having problems with thousands of spider eggs, about to become thousands of little spiders, in the thatch roof of his Rondawel. Spiders are our friends; we have mutual enemies like, mosquitoes and flies, so we try not to kill them. Pascal is being very brave and he leaves the place, window and all wide open so that, when the babies hatch, they can just blow away in the wind. I must add that these are Rain spiders and they are very much harmless, we probably would have had to make another plan, if they where the dangerous kind. He just told me “every time I turn my pillow there is another spider”. He has now decided to sleep in his tent until the spiders are born and gone.
Pascal looking the part
They both seem to be taking it in good spirit, laughing and joking about it.
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