Monthly Archives: October 2013

Overland Roads – Guest Post

Posted on October 31, 2013 by

Marian’s 1976 Africa trip. Of wild Africa in the 70’s, Kiwi MARIAN GELLERT, met in London in 1969, mentioned in my earlier blogs and with whom I recently reconnected, writes: I came across this letter written to my mother when … Continue reading →

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Zambezi Delta

Posted on October 26, 2013 by

1973 still had some wild Africa in it for me before the year shut its door. After the birth of my daughter, I flew back to Beira and headed for the Zambezi to join the crew surveying its delta. We … Continue reading →

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Birth

Posted on October 19, 2013 by

In October of 1973, I flew south for a week to attend the birth of my first child. I knew it would be a boy. Greet, with her big tummy, was staying with my parents on the farm near Warmbaths, … Continue reading →

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Ibo Island – Mozambique

Posted on October 12, 2013 by

Understandably, there was a fair amount of envy by my work-mates in 1973 when I was sent to Porto Amelia, to undertake an oil-seed potential soil survey, due to its proximity to coral reefs. With haste, three of them organised … Continue reading →

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PORTO AMELIA

Posted on October 5, 2013 by

As the Inhaminga area survey drew to a close towards the end of 1973, I was asked to head up to northern Mozambique to do a solo survey for an oil-seed company looking for suitable land to grow oil-seed crops … Continue reading →

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