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3.0 Folder (Inner) ADVENTURE
“

May the winds welcome you with softness. May the sun

so well that God joins you in laughter, and sets you gently
back into the loving arms of Mother Earth.

TEXT AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY CAVANAGH
bless you with its warm hands. May you fly so high and “

he balloon rose almost Sue and I had been collected at some of whom we learned were from
imperceptibly as Mark, our 05hr15 at Bakubung Lodge and driven Australia and Finland.
pilot, increased the gas flow on a 14 seat game viewing vehicle
Tto the burners. Slowly but to the balloon launch site, together Our designated balloon became fully
surely, we lifted higher off the ground with nine American tourists. Sunrise inflated and Sue and I were invited
and rose steadily upwards and away was still over an hour away and we to climb on board. The balloon’s
from the launch site where the second were all well wrapped up on this very basket has five compartments, the
balloon still stood, not quite fully chilly winter morning. There was a central one being for the pilot and the
inflated. The early morning mist still hive of activity at the launch site with other four being for the passengers.
hung over Mankwe lake in the centre generators providing lighting and Although a stepladder is provided,
of the Pilanesberg game reserve powering the fans that were being boarding still requires a certain
and as we gained height, we saw the used to inflate the two balloons. Tea amount of agility as the basket
shadow of our balloon projected onto and coffee were being served and is over a metre in height and the
the surrounding misty curtain. we chatted to our fellow balloonists, compartments are very narrow. The

BALLOON

FLIGHT

OVER THE PILANSBERG

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