My VIRGO sense of order is being severely challenged!

These next few blogs will be messed up in order. After the Kruger Park unbelievable safari, I left my camera in the van that dropped me off to Outlook Lodge - so my pictures have to wait til Feb 16 when I can retrieve my camera - thank goodness I found it! However, I have a big hole in the order of the pictures and blogs for the Okavango Delta and Botswana, so they will come later - probably when I am in Perth, Australia for a week - collect my thoughts...

I arrived at The Outlook Lodge on Feb 7. It is a small guesthouse and the manager, Francoi,s made me feel at home. The best part is he cooks the meals which are outstanding - thank you!

The one thing you notice about Johannesburg is the total security lockdown. EVERYONE tells you how much crime there is - I wonder if that is so or it is just fear. In every other place, while taking the normal precautions of safety, I felt fine - definitly not afraid! Itès such a clean modern city, then you see the Shanty Towns - eeeww. Total slums compared to the rest of the houses. One can feel the segregation between whites and blacks here more than anywhere else I have been - it is progressing but I think they have a ways to go. This next election should be interesting - the people I spoke with (black or white) do not know who to vote for - a sign of a population going through change I guess!

I went to the Cradle of Humanity Museum for the day on Saturday. It is very well done and the ponts made are clear. (see pictures)

The main theme is Darwins Origin of Species book and Survival of the Fittest theory. The reason for differences in modern day humans is adaptation to their environment. Some can adapt better and will survive successfully.

This leads me to this question....if there are multiple natural disasters which severly compromise our manmade modern creature comforts, who will ultimately survive? The ones who could not kill an animal to eat (no time to grow food in a crisis) or cannot live without a cell phone, who are overweight, unfit and unhealthy, who drive everywhere, who have lost what it means to survive - OR those who live off the land, walk everywhere, can livewithout eating for a day and who know what it means to survive because they live it everyday....hmmmmm

You wonder why I took up hunting, just saying!