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Where are you going, Keith?!
My goldfish pond
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Hi CE, Chobe Nature Reserve in Botswana, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, a private reserve near Kruger and Cape Town in South Africa. I have taken so many shots lately I feel like a pin cushion!
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Wow have a great time! I took a white river rafting trip starting at the base of Victoria Falls, a week on the Zambezi River. Beautiful neat critters, great fun! This was after the camping safari in Tanzania.
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PICTURE'S PLEASE! Can't wait to see and hear all about it!!! 
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Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy Keith and yep we want to see lots of pix when you return.
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We won't bother you while you are gone but we sure will once you are back. That sounds like a dream vacation to me! Enjoy, and we are all excited to see all that you saw while there!
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Thanks all! Addy, you are braver than me. I heard the rapids are very difficult so I chickened out of rafting.We are going to take a helicopter here though, We will be on two safari's total one in Botswana and one in South Africa. Also we will be spending a week in Cape Town. Happy New Years everyone!
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We had to portage the rafts a few times, too dangerous to ride them. Also warnings of hippos, they like to come up under the raft and toss it, little dangerous bugs in the still water, etc etc. But so much fun!
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I would be very scared of them big hippos. I did white water rafting up by the ghost Dam up past Calgary, like 20 years ago while in the Army. The Bow River was cold coming out of mountains.
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At least our water was warm!
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Two of the three canoes overturned, lucky for me it was not my canoe. I remember giving the instructor a black eye accidentally. We were coming up to lots of white water and he said something to me, and I turned back to see him (he was in rear of canoe steering) and I turned with the one big double paddle, which was unfortunate for him, and wacked him in the head. Poor guy!
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We were in those large rubber rafts that hold around 6 people, ropes to hang onto. They would bend with the dips in the water.
Colleen I started canoeing at bodring school on the early 70's when I joined the Navy chose a sport called surf canoeing , surfing many beaches of the plces we would visit .
In 1978 I undertook an Army Canoe insstructors course on the river spey in Scotland , I ran a number of clubs on the ships and bases I was on but lost the ability to do my beloved sport after my bike crash
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Oh sorry to hear you had a bike crash Dave! That must have been terrible losing the ability to do your favorite sport. I only got to white water canoe the one time but it was scary enough that I never really missed it.
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Dave sorry to hear about your crash too. I have gone canoeing in Quebec province and it was pretty challenging to do it in fast waters with a lot of large rocks. Also had to learn it in French which I barely know any words I'm still in Africa. We went great white shark watching and I took some nice pictures. I also saw a leopard eating it's kill in a tree and a bunch of other interesting things.I'll post some pictures when I get back. Right now we are in Cape Town. It's a really nice city and I could see living here. The only negative is all the shanty towns. It's sad to see people living that way.
I'm still in Africa. We went great white shark watching and I took some nice pictures. I also saw a leopard eating it's kill in a tree and a bunch of other interesting things.I'll post some pictures when I get back. Right now we are in Cape Town. It's a really nice city and I could see living here. The only negative is all the shanty towns. It's sad to see people living that way.