A thin coat of dust from the Kaisut desert brings hope!

A thin coat of dust from the Kaisut desert brings hope!

Category: Milgis lugga, Northern Frontier District, Samburu | Date: Jan 16 2009 | By: milgistrust

Yesterday evening was quite exciting…A wild evening!!

Not so typical of Elgerei, the Samburu name for the Milgis Lugga, a place full of dramatic surprises. At about 5.30 pm looking to wards the east there seemed to be a very strange brown look to the sky, and soon it became clear it was a very strong wind coming in from the Kaisut desert, bringing with it the most incredible amount of dust… It came slowly but surely up the Milgis lugga, and spread out to wards the Matthews and Ndotos.. The sight was amazing, beautiful colours, and suddenly we are all most in the dark!..

The dust was so thick we’ve all got sore throats today!!… In the morning there was a thin coat of dust on all the surfaces, which the Samburu told me not to clean as its bad luck… If I leave it, it will rain!… Well… they are not wrong… because today has turned into a cold after noon, with rain all around!!… FANTASTIC NEWS… The full moon did it!…. There is alot of warriors wandering around singing at the top of their voices… true joy ringing through the hills at the sight of rain!!

3 Responses to “A thin coat of dust from the Kaisut desert brings hope!”

sheryl, washington, dc, on 16 Jan 2009

I’m glad the rains are finally falling. I hope you get all that you and the wildlife need to survive.

Montse, on 17 Jan 2009

GOOD GOOD NEWS¡¡¡. How clever The SAMBURU are. I hope the rains continues for a long time.

The Milgis Trust » The rain was disappointing… But good news on the horizon!!, on 22 Jan 2009

[…] doused… We had a little drizzle, in the plains.. thats all… So much for not cleaning the dust off all the surfaces!!!… The sky became crystal clear again…But the wind is unusually […]

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