Lake Kariba Trip: Day Two

Following a big tasty breakfast we headed out again at 7:30 a.m.

Prices are great off the beaten path with the current strong dollar: 2 rooms, supper and breakfast for the 4 of us at under $35 total.

Because of the state of the 'good' roads we already traveled we did not venture on the 'very bad' road which would have taken us directly south-west to the second point on the lake that Pastor Benson wished for us to visit.

So we back-tracked past Pemba, where we started on the paved road, went further south-west until the town of Batoka and then turned south again. 

After dropping in elevation and nearing the lake we saw huge fields being irrigated from center pivots and a very large cattle operation owned by ZamBeef. 

We were told that at one point President Jimmy Carter visited.

We stopped in at a small Wesleyan church where much to Cory's happiness there was a fruiting baobab tree of a rare "sweet" type (actually just not as sour and more pulp on the seeds) and a huge fallen common type - 'This is like seeing an elephant for me!!'

The tree had not dropped any fruit which resulted in an amusing time of watching Pastor and others fling big sticks to knock down the fruit.

The pastor reported the church, ministry, and area is 'very promising!' 

We once again headed to the lake.

The resort where we planned to eat lunch only contained a couple staff and no food.

Being prepared we assembled our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and then wandered down to the lake watching for crocodiles and hippo. 

Sadly we saw neither, just a blue-tailed skink.

We took a new way back to the main road, on the back side of the big farms.

A bit of shopping on the way back for drinks and snacks.

We pulled into home at the Bible School at 7:30 p.m. thankful that the lights and power were on.

Two days of full travel.

the Baobab doesn't have much root, but is tough,
long fallen but still alive