Orientation for Harley & Logan - Mulungushi Dam

Friday (March 9) I had a quiet morning at the house catching up on some paperwork and reading while Milt took Harley and Logan on a tour of the area. At the school Milt and Logan got involved in a couple of games of soccer with the kids as it was sports day. They got back just before the rain started - a very heavy downpour for most of the afternoon so we didn't do much more except chat and make plans for the next few days.

Saturday Logan and I drove into Kabwe and then on to Mulungushi Dam - a man-made lake about 60 km East of Kabwe. The gravel road was in terrible shape after all the rain so it took us nearly two hours to get there ! Well worth the trip as it was a beautiful spot and we had a couple of hours hiking around the area. The water was pouring over the spillway creating a spectacular waterfall of over 100 feet into the gorge below. Quite an engineering feat went into constructing the dam so it was interesting to explore all of that.

Another bone-jarring journey on the way back and quite a relief to hit the smooth hard-top back in Kabwe. Half-way back to the farm we were stopped at the permanent police check-stop on the main road - usually they just wave us through but this time they wanted to see my driver's license. That was not problem but they had pulled over the vehicle in front of us and were asking all sorts of questions. As we started driving past that vehicle I recognized Jenny's niece, Sherry, sitting in the passenger seat so also pulled over ! She and her boyfriend were heading North to a birthday party in Makushi but didn't have time to stop in at the farm so we had a quick chat on the side of the road before heading on our way ! We got back to the farm to find that Milt and Harley had had a good day doing a couple of long walks through the local area.