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CFZ EXPEDITION REPORT: GAMBIA 2006

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The team of the CFZ did a 2 week journey to Gambia. Based at a hotel near the beach, they made a view sightseeing tours by rented taxi. They made some interviews with local people "they call them bumsters", means something like: people hanging around the beach and wait for tourists to earn some money.
The book has alltogether 280 pages. Sounds good, but you find out soon, that everybody of the six person team, wrote down his expirience of the journey on around 40 pages. That means, you read the same journey six times, with only slight individual differences. They did try to dig up the carcass of a monster called "Gambo", buried by a amateur naturalist around twenty years ago. They did try that with a shovel, children normaly use at the beach to play. The bought a local jewelry that should represent a Ninki Nanka, but looks like a chinese dragon. They bought a Ninki Nanka scale that is made of plastic.
At the end, I'm wondering why they did this journey, and what could have been done with that money instead to do some other research. Did they realy think, they could solve a mystery, in that short time and with this equipment?
One of the members "Richard Freeman" did allready publish a well researched book about the Dragon myth.
But keep your fingers away of that one.