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Chiawa Camp
Newsletter
June 2004
 What
a fantastic start to the year 2004.
Grant and Lynsey finally got married
in April in Scotland and Chiawa Camp
is now open for the season which is
already in full swing!
Just a few weeks ago at the end of
April, the Cumings family and
friends packed their bags and left
Zambia for the bonnie and
unbelievably sunny banks of Loch
Lomond for our wedding. We had an
amazing turn out, of all our
families and friends and had the
most perfect dream wedding. A great
fun weekend was had by all and we
would like to thank everyone who
came to our wedding from far and
wide across the world to help make
our big, special day such a joyous
and most memorable occasion. We
would also like to thank everyone
for their kindness and generosity
with all our wedding gifts, and also
for all the cards, messages, e-mails
and telegrams that we received on
the day. A day after the wedding it
was straight back to work for us to
make it back to Zambia on time to
greet our first guests of the 2004
safari season – no time for luxuries
such as honeymoons!
It
has been a marvellous start to the
season with lots of interesting
sightings so far. Our packs of wild
dogs are in the area and were just
yesterday hanging around behind
Chiawa Camp.
We have had a few other visitors
through the camp in the last week,
Mr. Tembo our resident male leopard
who left lots of tracks on our sandy
path and even took a stroll through
our dining room during the night.
 We
also had a lioness wander past the
workshop, our storeroom and right
past our staff at dusk a couple of
nights ago! Grant and I had a very
interesting sighting, whilst on an
afternoon game drive, we spotted a
brown snake eagle with a snake
hanging from its beak. He was being
harassed by lots of smaller birds as
he treated the snake in his mouth
like a piece of spaghetti!
On the 4th of May we were
privileged to see a Lunar Eclipse,
which was fascinating to watch. It
took about one hour for the moon to
be completely covered, as this
happened the stars became
exceptionally bright and glistened
and twinkled at us from the vast,
clear African night sky. The moon
took on an amazing orange hue from
the dust reflected in the earth’s
shadow. We have also had our first
moon lit Island dinner of the season
which was a thrilling and unique
experience for all our guests that
were there that evening, it was a
great success and thoroughly enjoyed
by everyone.
 Finally
we would like to welcome two new
members of staff to the Chiawa Team
– Joe Du Plessis and Barbara
Buchanan. Joe has joined us as a
guide and is very experienced on the
water and bush coming from a super
Lodge in Natal, South Africa. With
his lovely nature and his sense of
humour we are positive he will be a
great asset at Chiawa.
His partner Barbara also joins us
and will be helping Lynsey to pamper
and spoil all our guests at Chiawa
Camp. Along with being a hostess she
will help manage front of house and
housekeeping departments along with
many other things! We are absolutely
delighted to have them join the
Chiawa Team this year and we are
looking forward to spending the
season with them both.
 We
also had an intensive First Aid
training day at the camp off season
and our staff learned to handle all manner of
injuries as pictured on the left !
May
we take this opportunity to thank
everyone for all the support you
have given us last year and we wish
you all the best for the coming
season.
Grant, Lynsey and the Chiawa Team.
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