Matt and Becki Dillingham

Saturday 31 January 2015

Domaine Du Lac

After living in Tana for 5 months we felt it was time to explore another local tourist site. Only 9km from our house by road, at the end of the airport runway, sits Domaine Du Lac (site botanical et zoologic), but the road is terrible so it took over an hour to get there! Our journey there was further impeded by the local Citroen owner's club putting their poor vehicles to the test and making an outing of driving along the road!

The Citroen flag made us think it might be an organised event not just a traffic jam!

More Citroen 2CV's than you would expect to see on a dirt road

The lead Citroen!

After passing the Citroen parade, which many people were eagerly awaiting with video cameras, the road got progressively worse. Every now and then there were brief sections of tarmac just to give you hope that it might improve. On the plus side Bethan fell asleep so was nicely refreshed when we arrived at the small zoological gardens. The 'zoo' bit was much better than Soavinandrimanitra Nature Parc because the wildlife was free roaming inside a tropical house rather than individually caged (although Bethan liked Soavinandrimanitra because the lemurs cuddled her). We were impressed with Domaine du Lac. Here are some photo's from the day:

Hundreds of tortoises

It wouldn't be Madagascar without some free roaming Lemurs

Enjoying the sunshine

Mini Baobab

Bethan liked these flowers so the owner picked them for her

Biggest Green Gecko we've seen so far

Men fishing on the lake

Just eating my lunch with some Chameleons

Parson's Chameleon

Tomato Frog

Mantella Frog

So cool when they are jumping

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Becki grew up in Devon and has had a passion for flying ever since her first flying lesson aged 9. She got her Private Pilot's Licence in South Africa before going to Bath University to study physics.

Matt lived in Qatar until he was 12, then went to school in Dorset before studying physics at Bath where he met Becki. They got married in 2008 and moved back to Devon when Becki got a job as an 'eye in the sky' pilot for Pirate FM. Matt has spent the last 4 years teaching science at Holsworthy Community College.

Becki first heard of the amazing work of MAF at Christian Union, in 2005 and quickly decided to become an Area Rep, giving presentations to groups and churches around the South West. She spent a week in Uganda, in 2007 seeing an MAF operation in action and once, she had gained the required fl ying experience, began the application process to become a pilot with MAF. Becki, Matt and Bethan served with MAF in Madagascar from 2014-2016 before returning to the UK for the birth of their second child Luke. Now they are starting out on their second assignment with MAF and will spend the next four years in Chad

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