Life in the near-desert

Friends, this blog post is a collection of photos to give you more insight into our lives and environment.

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This dry country is our home. We are pastoralists – we depend on our goats and camels for almost everything.  We do not have piped water – it is fetched from the river in jerry cans and is carried to our houses. We are also doing some farming especially near the river.

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Gerenuk are amongst the most beautiful of African antelopes – few people eat them, they are believed to cause sterility in men!

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Do you know what these giraffe are doing?

I will be posting more often once I have a computer. I really appreciate all the donations that have already been received – however we are still short of a few hundred dollars.

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6 Comments

  1. Dipesh
    Posted November 27, 2007 at 8:40 am | Permalink

    These are fantastic pictures! thanks for sharing

  2. Bruno
    Posted November 27, 2007 at 10:27 am | Permalink

    The pictures are really great, thanks for posting them.

  3. Dana-Arizona
    Posted November 27, 2007 at 11:37 am | Permalink

    Beautiful photos. I will be sending in a few more dollars the end of the month. We need to get you that computer!!!

  4. Susan - Illinois
    Posted November 27, 2007 at 8:39 pm | Permalink

    The giraffes with entwined necks? My guesses would be mating behavior or mutual removal of parasites?????

  5. Lisa, California
    Posted November 27, 2007 at 10:55 pm | Permalink

    Thank you so much for sharing the pictures. Absolutely beautiful! Please share more! Lisa

  6. Dana-Arizona
    Posted November 28, 2007 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    Think they are ‘necking’ i.e. fighting.

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