Thursday, December 14, 2006

Lizard man



Someone asked me what Zimbabwe was like, this is a photo of a place called World's View in the Matopos National Park, it is where Cecil John Rhodes is buried. There was once an old park ranger who had an affinity with lizards, every afternoon at about 4.30 he would come to these rocks and start calling the lizards. They would literally pour out of the rocks and gather round him, before long there would be hundreds and hundreds, like a sea of lizards. This old man was very well known and tourists used to come from all over to see the spectacle, but when I took Gerald there, they told me the old man had died, perhaps he has been reincarnated as a lizard. So anyway, the view from up here is amazing, you really do feel that you are on top of the world and the panorama of the hills stretches before you as far as the eye can see. When I was growing up lots of people used to drive out here on New Year's Eve and stay until the sun rose, what a way to start the year!

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