David Young Xcursions: Journey with the Virgos, 2001, Part 1
South east: Gaborone yacht club: The first work on the road to the island site
Happy days in 1979 in the Cottonfields at the finish of the desert race. Yes, that is an enthusiastic policeman.
Gaborone dam with Kgale on the right, from the old (mostly underwater) yacht club site
Delightful original University hostel, now wiped
The first continuous paving of the main Mall was for this royal visit
Sweet the cat (lived to 14) on the front doorstep
Nero, the skinny black boy who turned up hungry one day was of course allowed in: look at those eyes. Sadly he later as a young cat-about-town befriended cats across a busy road and burned up his nine lives
In 2017 Stripes, the cat who arrived in the backyard the previous November, discovered how to do Spidercat
Running freely up walls
At home
Gaborone dam
Our zenith was 67 entries for a regatta in the days of windsurfers
GYC rising. We found stones laid across the gaps between the rocks, probably when the hill was a lookout in the Boer war
Once there was an annual raft race
We chose a new yacht club site that would be adjacent water, whatever the level
At the club, looking east
Looking south. Botswana ends on the hilltops
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