Comments on: The River Gambia I – Monkeys, Dolphins and a Praying Mantis https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/ Captain Hugh and the Reluctant Navigator Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-289 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:17:39 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-289 In reply to Rosie.

Thanks Rosie and hope you’re jumping and skipping through the snow xxx

]]> By: Rosie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-272 Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:38:00 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-272 Hi Annie (and Hugh and Alex though not as afterthoughts), You are posting some wonderful pictures; you’ll have such a good record for when you eventually get back, along with your diary. It makes for wonderful reading but am really thinking of you with all the bugs and humidity. I have such admiration for you endurance: I’d’ve jumped ship by now! Snow is threatened here, it has got a lot colder suddenly but doubt the snow even though I could yet be proved wrong. Given a choice, I know where I’d rather be. Today is the anniversary of my ‘grand fall’ and, at last, after a lot of nagging, I have an orthotic appointment in a few days so maybe a little less gimpy in due course. Please take care, lots of love, Rosie xx

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-238 Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:43:43 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-238 In reply to Jim Lucas.

We have a pressure cooker. Any recipes? xx

]]> By: Jim Lucas https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-231 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:42:43 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-231 If you have handy a deep fat fryer you could try battered bat?

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-227 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:43:55 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-227 In reply to Annie Sparkes.

we haven’t seen it yet on the menu! x

]]> By: Annie Sparkes https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-226 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:38:00 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-226 Does the Gambia do bat soup? Its a delicacy in Ghana

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-225 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:23:38 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-225 In reply to Ken Dolbear.

Thanks Ken. The dolphins were amazing! x

]]> By: annie https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-224 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:22:55 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-224 In reply to Peter Baylis.

Thanks Pete.. too late for Alex but we’ll try it xx

]]> By: Peter Baylis https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-223 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:13:04 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-223 Facinating account. Many thanks.
If the fish are rising to the surface in the evening, they are probably sipping flies/ insects from the surface as do trout. Try casting an artificial fly towards them. If you don’t have flies, a bare hook with some wooly fluff whipped to the shank will often fool them.

]]> By: Ken Dolbear https://voyageofvega.cactus.co.uk/the-river-gambia-i-monkeys-dolphins-and-a-praying-mantis/#comment-222 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:16:21 +0000 http://vega.cactus.co.uk/?p=909#comment-222 Wow! Loved the dolphins. Be careful of hippos and steer around them widely. We were told they are very territorial. Brilliant photos. Ken

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