Well it certainly feels great to be back on ancestral tribal lands in Guyanas northern Amazonian rainforest, a tad surreal in a way to be using an iPad that belongs to my wifes cousins spouse from Scotland who lives in the village, at the place where the white sand amazon savannahs and the jungle meet...were it not for this I would be off the radar for a month, as it is I will be able to access the net again tomorrow, then again Tuesday I suspect, as there is a 2 mile walk from our home at the southern end of the village to this home with the iPad. We arrived - all 7 of us, on Wednesday night at 9pm to family homestead at the jungle edge, up early next morning with 3 of my brothers-in-law and my second son Tecumseh to go into the jungle, we harvested a few pounds of Otokoma from a fallen Eetay palm tree, then we cut Sirikili to make shafts for the 100 arrows my father-in-law is making for me, to accompany the 9 five-foot rubber tree bows and 9 quivers, and we wandered around the jungle for a few miles looking for Toro palm tree fruit (it makes the sweetest natural hot beverage on earth) but found only trees with green bunches or that had already had the bunches eaten by toucans and monkeys. So we picked 3 different types of wild berries on the way back to the boat, we have the Amazon version of the blueberry of north America here, sometimes when they are in season like they are now till September, you might go out on a hunting trip on the savannahs looking for deer or armadillos -and just fill your stomach with berries and go back home instead, lovely sweet little things they are. Wife went to the village with her sister and my eldest son and the girls yesterday and came back with 14 pounds of Tapir meat, some hunter shot one, so we are enjoying that Presently until it runs out, then we fish and camp overnight near those berry fields so my girls can have fun picking them. I just watched the football match with Germany and France at another of my wifes cousins using solar powered battery, and about to watch the brazil Colombia match -so not missing out on those either, but before we walked here to get a few supplies we pulled cassava this morning, laliwa and sabantho helped to scrub and peel, I grated until I had to leave on my errand, as we wil be making cassava bread and cassava beer over the next few days and I want my kids to familiarise themselves with EVERY traditional thing that is going on -as granny and grandad wont be alive forever ....and they will take all their knowledge with them to the grave if we do not learn and practice what we have learned. So my FB will be almost silent, certainly less updated over the next month as we culturally recharge our spiritual batteries, but when I do get the chance, I wil try to keep those who are concerned posted, hopefully those seeing this who know that Geddes and Audrey Will not be ....will call them and let them know ..maybe read this for them as you know they will be worried not hearing from their grandchildren for so long, will go beyond radar range after next week Friday.....over & under (makes that Wilkie-talkie sound) lol.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:38:01 +0000
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