Bumboosie South

We are almost at the end of the dry season (we hope). Some parts of the Sinamatella area have had good rain already but others (including Sinamatella itself) are still more or less dry. After last year’s terrible dry season, with many animals dying around the water points, this has been a really good year, in spite of the fact that some of the artificial water points were never pumped at all.

    The solar pump at Bumboosie South developed a problem as early as February and we have been unable to get it working until now. Claude Hillion, a member of our most recent group of volunteers, generously agreed to bring a new inverter which Michel Buenerd had worked hard to source from the manufacturer, Tenesol, in France. We’ll never know if the large box containing the inverter was to blame but Claude’s luggage went missing for almost a week and seems to have had an exciting time on its own, touring the world before finally reaching Victoria Falls from France via Dubai and Amsterdam!

    It wasn’t quite as straightforward as I would have hoped but we eventually got the new inverter installed and working and when we left, the Bumboosie South trough had water for the first time in months……

   

When we checked on it again nine days later there was a nice deep pool in the pan as well……

With a kudu warily watching us from a distance as it waited a chance to come and drink……

  Many thanks to all the volunteers who have worked so hard at Bumboosie South at various times this year. Success at last.