Route 62 - Barrydale
Barrydale, the perfect weekend getaway on Route 62. A beautiful 2½ hour drive from Cape Town. We offer a marvelous selection of accommodation, restaurants and delightfully different shops.
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 Dear All, Friends of the Baboons,
It is wonderful to communicate with you again -- some major events happened this year, and correspondence fell behind. Our beloved founder, Peter, passed away at the end of July, leaving a great physical gap to Nola and to us all. We know he is embraced in the love, light and peace of a greater dimension, and this enables us to come to terms with his physical absence. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking all of you for your support to us and to Nola so that our project could continue.
Fortunately Peter was still with us on 25 March, the day Benjamin Baboon and his troop of 25 baboons were re-located to their 5 hectare camp, adjacent to Matthew Baboon and his troop, on Matthew's Paradise land, --- a busy day, a most successful relocation, and great excitement from both troops at having "neighbours."
Both troops are making good progress in their semi-wild environment, and now the final stages of the next two 5-6 hectare camps are underway, so that as early as possible next year Stephen Baboon and his troop, and Samuel Baboon and his troop can also be relocated to the land across the road from our home here at "The Manger", and learn to re-wild, before ultimate freedom into nature.
Now our appeal is for any support you can give: volunteers are needed for a range of tasks to assist Nola, and you can contact her by phone or email for further details.
 Donations of food are much appreciated, as is monetary support which goes towards everything from caring for orphaned baby baboons, bottles, milk powder, to electric fencing, water troughs, gates, maintenance, etc., ---- many of you know exactly what goes on here, and you know it is an ongoing enterprise, so if you can help, we do thank you, and our new banking details are:
CapeCROW, ABSA, Barrydale, Branch 334213, a/c No. 407468938.
Meanwhile, back "the Manger" the photo is of Erica taking care of our latest and youngest baboon, whom we named "Frazer". He is trooping with two other young orphans, and all three are learning to successfully co-exist as a young troop.
We are grateful and excited that Andrew Schofield has made a lovely documentary of us and this place - it will be available in DVD form at the end of November, so if you would like to purchase one, please email or phone Nola. All of the profits from the film are for the Manger.
I will close for now, with love, very sincere thanks to you all, and greetings for a peaceful 2010. Please forward this on to as many of your conservation friends as possible.
On behalf of everyone here at "The Manger",
I am, JOSHUA BABOON. |
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