The approximate coordinates taken from Google Earth are 25°22'48.54"N and 47°18'10.38"E if you want to check it out. Seder Village is our compound.
We had done some shopping before our trip to stock up on edibles. We had to make a dash before the store closed for prayer time and ended up buying camel chops. I didn't read the label, thinking I had taken cow chops. We decided to live on the edge and give it a go (we made sure to pack in enough snacks for incase!). The ladies back home suggested I marinade it with lemon juice, paprika, ginger, garlic and pepper or olive oil sherry (no go in Riyadh!) and Worchester sauce. Shanahz also suggested we feed the camel rosemary twigs a few days before the braai. We'll keep that in mind for next time. I also added a good dolop of coriander.
On the fire it went with great anticipation but I must have done something wrong because the marinade overpowered the meat completely. So we packed it in and put it in a stir fry the next day. It was very tender by then, and the spice mix was delicious. I must admit that I could't tell the difference between camel meat and cow meat after all.
This time we notice such a variety of animal tracks all over our little camp. A lot of movement must have occurred while we were sleeping as they covered our vehicle tracks the next morning. We looked out for scorpions because we had seen some suspicious burrows the previous time. We found one under someone's tent when they packed up. It is a small brownish little thing. You would never see it in the dark. It is something that worries me a bit, out there far away from civilisation, as nobody wears shoes in the thick sand. We also found a sand lizard or ghecko. It runs across the dune and burrows quickly under the sand. If you find fresh tracks you can see where it is hiding and flush it out. Behind our dune was another small depression with a huge burrow, large enough for a mammal, maybe a fox. Some of the tracks we saw looked like mammal tracks to me. Of course my camera's bateries died when I wanted to photograph them for further investigation, but this gives me an expedition to look forward to. Maybe we could get some of the older kids roped in and make an inventory of all the different tracks and try to identify their owners.
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| There is a scorpion in the middle there somewhere |
Since I didn't have the use of my camera I took some photos on my phone and then of course had to finally figure out how to download the. Rean did the figuring out for me, and so I can also post some pictures that I took of the city to give you an idea of our streetscapes.
Why are clandestine pictures of people sleaping so funny?
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| Mieke loves to wear her Dad's socks |
