Friday 27 November 2015

Nyal for Comboni Missionaries

One flight today out to a place called Nyal for the Comboni Missionaries. Freight only, including some fishing twine and hooks, salt, sugar, rice and 300kg of soap...

Since we have not been to Nyal airstrip in quite a long time I walked the full length to carry out an inspection. The ground is dry and cracked after nearly a month without rain, making the surface firm but quite rough, and there are several sinkholes on the runway near to the one end. I took out my phone to get a picture of one of the holes and this little girl who was hanging around with her friends seemed really excited to jump into the picture. (actually, a second later she jumped into the hole, or perhaps she was pushed by her friends, but that picture came out a little blurry)