As golf courses go it is a standard 18-hole golf course. As golf courses go it also has some interesting features. Notably lacking due to the dry season is grass. The course is a dusty meander with some low-lying wild plants as ground cover. Being Gambia it is also a good bird-watching site. Set alongside a mangrove swamp but with trees and shrub cover all across the site it is a bit hit-and-miss for golfer and bird-watcher alike! Even more interesting are the local pigs and their litters which are allowed to wander freely scavenging for pine nuts. As a non-golfer but having watched golf on television the bit I found most fascinating is the hole in the middle of the mangrove swamp. To hit a ball at the post requires the ball to circumnavigate a few palm trees, bend over water and (hopefully) land on a small island surrounded by mangroves. By anyone's standards a hole-in-one seems an unlikely event. From the point of view of anyone criss-crossing the golf course early in the morning the flashing red of a gonalek (bird) and the brief but wonderful sight of a red squirrel are hard to beat.
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Angela TorpeyI have taught Egyptology for nearly 25 years, for 21 years with the Centre for Lifelong Learning, the University of Warwick and for just over 10 years on the internationally recognised Certificate of Egyptology (Distance Learning by e-Learning) with the University of Manchester led by Professor Rosalie David.
Because of changes to the lifelong learning programme at Warwick I now teach independently, although I also teach dayschools for the university. For nearly 20 years I have led Study Tours to Egypt both independently and as guest lecturer with Ancient World Tours. Archives
December 2018
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