Thursday, February 16, 2006

Camel rides at Pink Lake

This is Pink Lake, so called because of the salt content turns the lake a pink color. The foam you see is actually salt foam that has collected on the surface of the water.
We went there with a group of local Missy friends and a Senegalise friend of theirs named Aminata. The other Senegalise are actually Nars/Pulaar, they were our camel drivers.
These guys took good care of us, and the children. William was excited about seeing the camels....but REFUSED to get close to them. So he stayed back with Granpa Dave,as did Mariama, and played with their children. He had a BLAST!!
This is William on Granpa Dave's sholders. This made William happy, finding out he did not have to get too close to the camels!! They LOVE each other!!
Lisa getting on her camel. As you can see there was no room for Mariam, so she stayed behind as well. Thats uncle Carl in front of Lisa, he helps keep things operating machanically for the missys here.Me riding on my camel. They are not NEAR as smooth of a ride as a horse!! It was fun though none the less. That is Aaron, another ISC-journeyman, on the right. Part of the group riding along the beach. That is Carrie on the left (another ISC-journeygirl), Aminata, Lisa and then uncle Carl again.


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