Cape Town Mission Field 

6 March 2018
Day 87
Tuesday

This morning we left around 7:00 AM to go to the Cape Town Market just west of Pinelands. It is an early morning market (starts selling at 3:30 AM) for all the hawkers to buy there fruits and veggies that they sell on the street. We bought a medium size box of grapes, peaches, and pears for R200, about $15.

Sister Courtright used the fruit to prepare a fruit salad and Elder Courtright went to El Greeyo (cuban cafe) and picked up 3-cheese burgers for the zone leader conference that was held in the office.

Everyone seemed to applaud the change from pizza.

As we drove through the gate around 8:00 AM we saw one of the long-necked birds that hangs around the area that tries to spear moles through the mole hills. I suspect he uses his hearing to tell when a mole is burrowing in its hole then thrusts its long beak into the dirt to spear the mole. Well, one of the birds had one in his mouth, it was a huge mole. After awhile it tried to eat it. It would throw it up and try to gulp it down. After a couple of seconds his head would ever so slowly drop forward until his opened beak stuck into the ground. It would stay in that positions for 15 seconds or so then hack up the mole and try it again. This went on for 3 or 4 times before I decided this was too hilarious not to film. So I started filming and caught his last head dropping episode then he was able to keep it down and for several minutes stretched its neck upward to force the mole down. It took quite some time but he finally succeeded.