Lecture / Seminar Meeting / Club
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
Event in Room: 241
The May meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society.
The meeting is open to the public.
The main presentation will be:
East Africa at Last! A photographic wildlife presentation
John Belbin
In 1957, at the age of 16, John began his career in London, England. His first job was as a cartographer working on maps of then British Colonies and Territories as they prepared for independence. Most of that time was spent on mapping places in Africa that he desperately wanted to see. He even helped train people from most of those places. Until this Christmas he had still never been to any of them. This is a photographic record of the first stage of an extensive “Road Scholar” educational exploration trip that took him from Nairobi, Kenya through Zanzibar and several beautiful islands in the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka. This presentation will concentrate on Kenya as it was at the top of his “Bucket List” and he had wanted to take a wildlife safari since he was in grammar school. He was very fortunate to have some of the best guides in Africa with him for all of the Kenyan field trips. Wildlife close-ups will be shown from parks in the Nairobi area and from his safari to the Maasai Mara. That is the Kenyan portion of the Serengeti and one of the most significant animal refuges in the world.
John is a retired cartographic educator who spent 23 years at the College of Geographic Sciences campus in Lawrencetown Nova Scotia as Cartography Instructor, Department Head and Student Services Officer.
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
Event in Room: 241
The May meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society.
The meeting is open to the public.
The main presentation will be:
East Africa at Last! A photographic wildlife presentation
John Belbin
In 1957, at the age of 16, John began his career in London, England. His first job was as a cartographer working on maps of then British Colonies and Territories as they prepared for independence. Most of that time was spent on mapping places in Africa that he desperately wanted to see. He even helped train people from most of those places. Until this Christmas he had still never been to any of them. This is a photographic record of the first stage of an extensive “Road Scholar” educational exploration trip that took him from Nairobi, Kenya through Zanzibar and several beautiful islands in the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka. This presentation will concentrate on Kenya as it was at the top of his “Bucket List” and he had wanted to take a wildlife safari since he was in grammar school. He was very fortunate to have some of the best guides in Africa with him for all of the Kenyan field trips. Wildlife close-ups will be shown from parks in the Nairobi area and from his safari to the Maasai Mara. That is the Kenyan portion of the Serengeti and one of the most significant animal refuges in the world.
John is a retired cartographic educator who spent 23 years at the College of Geographic Sciences campus in Lawrencetown Nova Scotia as Cartography Instructor, Department Head and Student Services Officer.
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: Free
Beveridge Arts Centre
