About Pam
I originally come from Scotland 🏴 but moved to Germany when I was 17.
I lived and worked for Lufthansa ✈️ in Germany 🇩🇪 until I took early retirement and moved to South Africa 🇿🇦 in 2016.
I love wildlife 🐘🦒🦓 and anything to do with the outdoors. 🥾🎒🚴♀️
As water is so scarce here in SA 🇿🇦 I’m amazed at all the dams, so I’m constantly looking for new ones to visit. 🌊
I have a YouTube channel for anyone who is interested in short wildlife videos 📹 under pam zirkel. Several times a week, I volunteer at a children's center for orphans and vulnerable children.
The children come to the center after school, have lunch 🍽️ then twice a week I help with English reading 📚 and twice a week with Maths ✖️➗➕➖
I organise a Christmas 🎅🏼 party for these children, which means 100 shoe boxes 📦 have to be filled each year.
Two of our supermarkets in town donate the food 🥦🥕🫑 for the party.
So if anyone is interested in donating, this is possible via my PayPal Account under
[email protected]
Any help is so very much appreciated. 🙏🏻
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Recent Activity
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- 4 days ago
This morning we started out earlier as Jasper had promised to paddle me across Lake Bunyonyi.
It was interesting to hear how the fisherman catch their fish in baskets.
Lake Bunyonyi unfortunately is not full of large fish, like Talapia, but only has crayfish and small silver fish.
We stopped at a small…
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- 5 days ago
When you think things can't get better - well they just did!
What an adventure brought today!! 🤩 First we took a boat tour on Lake Bunyonyi and hiked on Bushara island and at Butenga village 🛶🥾 Before the sun disappeared the views of the lake were absolutely stunning - well worth the hike uphill…
- Henri Gogniat, Bernhard, and 108 others like this.
- 5 days ago
Good morning from Lake Bunyonyi 🤩 Lake bunyonyi is believed to have been in existence for over 8000 years.
It was formed as a result of magma that flew from the erupted mount Virunga blocking the water flowing from river Ndego and hence creating a dam which later on became a lake.
Lake Bunyonyi has…
- 7 days ago
The people there look very happy 😊‼️
- Peter Benesch 🏔️, Alois Petrausch, and 109 others like this.
- October 28, 2024
It's so cute!
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- October 26, 2024
What an amazing trail through Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Along the way we saw several primate species - black and white colobus, blue monkey, red-tailed monkey and l'hoest monkey.
A bit wet under foot after all the rain we've had but still absolutely amazing 🤩♥️🇺🇬
- October 25, 2024
What an amazing country this is! 🇺🇬🤩
We headed to Kihihi again today as I wanted to go to the ATM again 🙄
Unfortunately the limit is quite low per day 🤦🏼♀️
While in Kihihi, we went shopping - I bought another dress for church (I can't go in trousers!) some erasers and chalk for the classrooms, some…
Today we drove to Lake Mutanda and Jasper kindly paddled me around the lake for 3 hours 😍
In the background of the Lake, 5 volcanos are visible, which are equally seen and shared between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.
These volcanos are Muhabura, Mgahinga, Sabinyo, Mikeno, Kalisimbi.
After paddling around…