
SAFARI PICNIC
There’s a history to the safari picnic. In 1913 Berkely Cole founded Nairobiโs Muthaiga Club so he might have a place where his drinks would be properly served. Like the later safaris, Kenya was now beginning to provide a pleasing blend of hardship and luxury, as the Muthaiga offered its croquet course, polo stables, Goanese chef and chauffeurโs. The Muthaigaโs sturdy rooms, โnon so elaborate as to make a rough-handed hunter pause at its door, nor yet so dowdy as to make a diamond pendant swing ill at easeโ, were the refuge after long hunts, lean crops, and strained meetings at the bank. As Beryl Markham remarked, โthese were the rooms which the people who made the Africa I knew danced and talked and laughed, hour after hourโ. Much of the social life also revolved around sport, not only hunting, but also polo and cricket. Golf was less popular, as the rough was thick with ticks, an occasional rhinoceros reduced concentration and one player was mauled by a lion on the fairway.
If you relate to the passages above then you too are one of them. And you too will picnic like they did.