Sunday, February 7, 2010

An Exciting Find!

This is the view we had this morning when we got up extra early to go to Helekpe Village. The sky here is always filled with dust from the Sahara Desert this time of year, they call it Harmattan (not sure about the spelling). I am not sure if it is extra heavy today or if there is fog or even if it is just left over smoke from all of the fires last night. I loved this view so I photographed it, the giant termite mound just adds to the beauty of this image.
We went to Helekpe to see this, a Giant Pangolin or a Long Tailed Pangolin not sure which it is or if they are one in the same but when I looked it up online I found both names for the animal. They are very rare animals and all of the Ghanaian people that we ask about it say they have never ever seen one. Some men from the village of Helekpe were hunting in the bush and found this one. They caught it and brought it back so they could try to sell it. They were supposed to have a buyer and we had to be there before 9:00 a.m. to see it. We got up and left at 6:30 just to see this rare creature, it was quite cool to say the least. This is definitely Africa!



I have never even seen one of these guys in a Zoo!

This is 2 of 2 posts for today.

Gary
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2 comments:

Leah Kelley said...

Very, very neat. Taylor said this thing was super rare. How cool is that? Great pics. :-)

February 7, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Jeff Raymond said...

Hi Gary
Enjoying your blog updates
Jeff

February 8, 2010 at 10:31 AM

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