MARK AND MARGIE ADCOCK

In our last Newsletter we wrote about Bateleur pilot, Mark Adcock and his near disaster when a marabou stork bashed into his windscreen while he was flying over the Okavango swamps.  The plane was almost a write-off.  Now, in addition to their plane being in dry dock, they have no lodge at Benguerra Island off the Mozambique coast.  The island was devastated by the recent cyclone.  Margie and Mark, both Bateleur pilots, appeared on Carte Blanche on Sunday 11th March.  They were in a small boat travelling towards what had, just the day before, been paradise - but was now a jumbled mess of uprooted trees and broken buildings.  Walking amongst their shattered dreams, their stoic stance in the face of this new disaster has to be admired.  The Bateleurs wish them strength.  Vasbyt!