From Empangeni
13.7.84
Dear Mr & Mrs Carlton
We
have just moved into a house and are starting to settle in. The house has got a
pool which is quite necessary in this hot climate. It is supposed to be the
middle of winter and yet it is almost hot enough to swim. Melissa has started
settling in at her new school. She was quite far behind when she started as she
was doing different work in Pietermaritzburg and has had quite a lot to catch
up with. The schools have broken up now for the holidays and her report said
that she had done well to catch up to the rest of the class. Jolene settled in
quite easily at the pre-primary. They have both been up to Howick to spend a
few days with my mother.
Alan and I went to False Bay for a night and tried out the
new tent that we bought. False Bay is on the northern shores of Lake St Lucia.
We had a nice time hiking through indigenous forest. We saw quite a lot of
buck, birds and a few warthog. While we were walking along the shore we could
see footprints of Hippos. Swimming and yachting are not allowed as the lake is
apparently full of hippos and crocodiles. We also saw a few pelicans. There is
a pelican breeding colony in the vicinity. There are also huts in the bush that
you can only get to by hiking to them. While we were sleeping we were woken by
a fairly large buck which was eating the vegetation behind the tent. We also
found a porcupine quill but did not see any porcupine.
This weekend we are getting my sisters to stay and we had
two of Alan’s friends from the Transkei to stay for a few days. They will
probably come back this weekend and get a lift with my sister back to Swaziland
so it is just as well we are now in a house. We went through the photos to see
if we could find anything suitable and these are what we could find. If we get
anything else we will send them as well. Can you please send me photos of
Alan’s sisters and yourselves as well as Benjamin.
Love
from Lorna, Melissa & Jolene
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