--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Henry Hirose"
<silentcity@h...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"

<orc@o...> wrote:

> > henry
> > welcome back
> > & yikes
> > does this mean you are already out of africa
> > as eagerly anticipated in messages 13195 & 13449
>
> Sorry for my late reply. Yes I am back from Africa and I have
> several pics from the alleged quadrapoint.

wonderful
please show & tell us all you can at your earliest convenience

meanwhile i will add some new thoughts too

Here are my brief

> thoughts. Mind you all I could do was observe and not any

detailed

> analysis.

well we already know you visited at flood stage
which must have made observation even harder than usual
& riding that ferry takes courage even in the best conditions

> From what I saw, it is a real stretch to call it a quadrapoint.
> There seems to be some distance between the NA bank and

the ZW

> point.

certainly & all the more so when the rivers are up

but do you mean you actually saw the last 2 bwzw markers
& could thus visualize the true projection of bwzw into the river
or were you just guessing at the zw terminal point

these definitive markers havent been reported since 1979

a subsequent but unconfirmed report claimed bwzw could be
discerned as the disjunction between a luxury riverside lodge &
its adjacent nonluxury help quarters

did you happen to notice anything like this

Since as others have said, there is no marker between ZM and

> ZW, it was difficult to determine the westernmost point of ZW.

right
this is a wet point that fluctuates with the river
but it is definitely aligned with the bwzw markers on the right
bank

There

> are power lines to the immediate east of the road leading to

the

> ferry crossing. I assume that they are within BW borders but

this is

> just conjecture.

this is probably a good guess because the markers were said to
stand alongside a road as of 1979

Later, looking southward from the river, I could

> see that the east of the ferry landing the south bank was all

covered

> in reed and there were no markers nor man made objects of

any kind.

>
> The bridge is a good idea

we heard it will be built by a japanese company

would you happen to know anything about this

because the so called "ferry" is a sorry

> contraption. It is a steel pontoon with two tractor engines on

each

> side. On the BW side, the ferry's drawbridge does not reach

the

> shore so passengers must hop over rocks to cross the gap, a

very

> difficult act with luggage. Most repeat travellers have their own
> horror stories about the ferry.
>
> I have developed the photos and I hope to have them in digital

form

> to share with you soon.
>
> Henry

great
& i have also learned of this 1997 book
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/90-411-0412-7?a=2
which has a whole chapter devoted to what it calls
the quadripoint theory

only problem is it costs hundreds of dollars
that is
unless someone could find a copy in a library