| Hello, all
Those with net connections can see it in full color and active links by just typing WilliamCalvin.com/2000/yearend.htm into a web browser. P.S. If you want to see the pictures from 2001 too, they are posted at WilliamCalvin.com/2001/yearend.htm.
| 2000 Year-end Letter 
 William H. Calvin Katherine Graubard 1543 - 17th Avenue East Seattle WA 98112-2808 USA phone 1.206 328-1192 fax 1.206 720-1989
 |
Christmas 1999
On Waldron Island in the San Juans, August 2000, with a group from Friday Harbor Labs.
Dressed for a big dinner honoring Edward O. Wilson
Various trips abroad.
April in Paris
Bill had a language-origins anthropology and linguistics meeting in Paris.
The chimera gargoyles atop Notre Dame
May in Kenya
Bill spent two weeks in Kenya, working on the book, and traveling around with Katherine's cousin, Susan Rifkin (who was living in Kisumu while setting up a postgraduate course in community health planning). See the book for more description.
Fisherman's coracle on Lake Baringo
Weavers at Lake Baringo
Cormorant at Lake Baringo atop fishing jetty.
Olorgesailie's sea of handaxes
Rhino at Lake Nakuru
Peacock (and Susan) at Lake Naivasha
Susan and the giraffes on Crescent Island in Lake Naivasha
Elephant in abandoned meander, near Little Governor's Camp, Maasi Mara
Wart hogs mowing the grass
Lions mating in Maasai Mara
Waterhole in Maasai Mara (the Kenyan part of the Serengeti)
Early morning aloft over the Serengeti.
Even in the Serengeti, balloons eventually come down (and sometimes tip over).
The nearby lions weren't interested in us (it was mating season).
Nor were they interested in our breakfast. The upright Maasai spears serve as obstructions,
to keep the vultures from raiding the table.
The lions were in that clump of trees in the distance, near the border with Tanzania.
October 2000 in Southern Africa
Bill and Katherine spent two weeks in South Africa and Namibia, joined later by Katherine's cousin, Susan Rifkin (who traveled on with Bill to visit Botswana for the third week). Again, see the relevant book chapters.
South Africa
At Sterkfontein, the famous hominid fossil site between Johannesburg and Pretoria
Katherine looking at the display table in the archaeologists' shed
Underground in Sterkfontein Grotto where Ron Clarke is uncovering a 3.3 million year old australopithecine skeleton
Phillip Tobias showing us the Taung child skull and endocast
(it was the first Australopithecine skull discovered, in 1924)
Tobias showing Bill another use for a hominid femur,
in the fossil vault at Wits in Johannesburg
English tea at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town
Susan, Katherine, and guide atop Table Mountain, looking at Cape Town
At the Cape of Good Hope with Susan
Penguin in False Bay.
View east from the Cape of Good Hope
Knysna harbor entrance, along South Africa's south coast.
Namibia
Wild life at Sossusvlei, Namibia
Katherine and Susan descending Dune 45 at Sossusvlei, returning to oasis
Susan, Katherine, and a visitor (harbor tour in Namibia)
Lunch on the beach
Botswana
\
Season's Greetings to all. Keep in touch!
Katherine and BillP.S. If you want to see the pictures from 2001 too, they are posted at WilliamCalvin.com/2001/yearend.htm.
