Greetings from Kabafita Lower Basic School in

The Gambia. How are you all in

England? We hope you are all well

and we are so glad you are our

friends.

We are all very excited. We are going on a school trip. We are going to visit the crocodile

farm at Kachikally

near Bakau.

We have all been reading stories

about crocodiles in English – like

this one by Roald Dahl called “The

Enormous Crocodile”

Here we all are at the crocodile farm at Kachikally, near Bakau

The pool has over 100 crocodiles. The water is very green – like pea soup. It is over 500 years old. The pool is very famous in The Gambia and is a sacred pool. It is believed that women who are bathed in the pool become very fertile. So women who are having trouble having a

baby travel many miles to the pool.

Some of the crocodiles have seen so many human visitors they have become tame and you can stroke

them!

Have you ever stroked a crocodile?

We all have now!

We like crocodiles. We

even have one on our one dalasi

coin.

We really enjoyed our visit to the

crocodile farm. Now I want to tell you a

joke. A man goes in to a cafe and he says I

want a crocodile sandwich and can

you make it snappy?

We are going to have a go at

narrating two crocodile stories.

We will record

them. And send them

to you.

We are going to say Good

bye now. We hope you

enjoyed the presentation. And we hope we will hear

from you soon. Bye.