Holiday snaps

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sorry = the pictures are too big... that's not happened before

[Lord Jim]

This is an odd looking fellow:



What kind of animal is that?

[MajGenl.Meade]

This is an odd looking fellow. What kind of animal is that?

nyala

"The handsome slate-brown shaggy coat is marked with white vertical stripes and spots on the flanks. Rams appear more charcoal-grey in colour. The rams have long inward curved horns (650 mm) and a white chevroned face. They have a ridge of long hairs along the underparts, from behind the chin to between the hind legs, they also have a mane of thick, black hair from the head along the spine to the rump. Rams weigh 115 Kg and measures 1.05 m at shoulders. Ewes are much smaller and do not have horns, and weigh 59 Kg and stand 900mm at shoulders. Ewes are chestnut-coated with even more prominent white stripes on the flanks"

[Bicycle Bill]

OK, I'll bite.  What's the deal with the boat and the tractor?

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

OK, I'll bite.  What's the deal with the boat and the tractor?

The boat + people is too heavy to get it into the water any other way.

The tractor pushes the boat off the beach with (they hope) enough straight-line force to get it into water deep enough for the engines to be lowered sufficiently to bite. It doesn't always work (they said); sometimes the sideways waves push the bow back parallel to the sand - in which case, they have to pull the boat out, turn it around on the beach (towing the bow round) and then push off again.

Landing is that same operation - ram the beach at top speed. Then the tractor tows the bow so the boat faces back toward the ocean and the passengers can get off at the stern on almost dry land - except the water usually catches some of 'em.