And this month it was Tau Pan’s turn for a bit of ‘R and R’ – well for the staff at least. The camp closed whilst maintenance was undertaken on the airstrip – it’s a bit hard to get in and out of camp when you can’t fly in. Although the work was being done by an outside contracting company, a couple of Tau Pan staff stayed on to ensure that nothing irregular happened to the camp during the time.
Well, for the Tau Pan staff, nothing irregular did happen to the camp. But for the airstrip maintenance crew who were staying within our staff enclosure, it was not quite what they were used to. Perhaps they thought the name of the camp was just a historical reference to lions being in the area at some point… This was soon corrected, when the Tau Pan pride decided to spend a bit of their time snoozing around the camp, since it was all wonderfully peaceful and quiet now.
Whether we have the lions to thank for it, or the super-efficiency of the airstrip contractors, the airstrip was completed a whole week earlier than planned!
