Digforcrystals
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Digforcrystals on Jun 20, 2011 20:15:17 GMT -5
There's two encampments at the brandberg mining area. One is the black fellows camp and the other is a white guy and his family and a few of the black folks that work for him. The white guy has a fortified structure made of wood, cinder blocks, sand bags and tin. They have a generator and a huge radio tower , so at night they can get on the internet and use the phone even though they are a hard 2 hours drive from electricity or water. The meerkat belonged to them as it had wandered up and they eventually tamed it. I was able to pick it up but it freaked on me when i stood in the sunlight in the video. If you listen carefully in the video it was making distress calls becuase it wanted out of the sunlight and back in the shadows of the porch. When I went back last year they tell me that it had ran away. The meerkat seemed quite at ease with the montster huge dog that gaurds the camp. One thing I learned, vicious huge dogs are quite popular in Namibia. They tend to keep other living things away. Even the cats there are very aggressive and mean.
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