The Last Week In August
on Derek and Trudy (Guyana), 07/Sep/2009 12:56, 34 days ago
The week revolved around the friends we have made. Asim ( seen in the top photo) in the water with his employee and friend Frankie) hosted us for Portknockers's Day at the family firm's bush camp on the edge of the Essequib0...The day celebrates the early days of goldmining and there are various competitions, displays and exhibitions related to mining , and there is plenty of corporate drink flowing from early in the day...the excellent 10 years old rum and Banks and Carib beer as well as traditional miners food...cook up, chicken and rice, labba (meat from a large rodent found in the rainforest), wild deer, fish. Here we have Tyler and Chris and a few of their Peace Corps friends from Georgetown with Trudy entering into the spirit of the day. The day of course is focused around gold and one of the activities was batelling for gold...Here we have a photo of some recently panned gold done during the day.. I may also say that we had another chat with the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds ( following our talks with him at the previous year's porkknocker's day and at the Regatta Day in April.