In the bush you can't go down to the sweet shop and buy a bar of chocolate for your sugar fix, things are a little more complicated and a lot more painful! We drove past a tree whilst on Safari which had been marked and the trackers asked us to stop for a few minutes so they could collect this seasons batch of honey, an interesting operation to witness!
Mwaipasi, the elder tracker and a former honey collector was eager to get on with the task, lighting a small fire and generating some smoke to subdue the colony. He then promptly stuck his arm down the hole without a care in the world and started extracting the honeycomb. He was covered, as you can see, by bees which swarmed everywhere and stung him a total of 16 times, the penalty for a handful of honey.
I think I prefer the sweet shop method, but the honey was quite superb!
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Simon Clode on October 10, 2014 at 8:58 pm
I did try, but they were fed up of me always doing the job and getting the best load of honey, they pushed me aside!
neil mcveigh on October 10, 2014 at 8:42 am
Simon dis-appointed you didn’t have a go at this.
As “top gun”you should lead from the front!
neil