This picture reminds me of many happy visits we made to the various lakes including Langano, Awasa and Debra Zeit as a family. It's my two younger brother's Chris & Ken with our father Jack Townsend. Most likely the picture was taken by my mother. Very often we would meet other families there with children of similar ages making it a great place to meet and make new friends. Some we already knew because of links between our fathers work others we simply met at the place and learned more about their background later.
As Harriet describes in her memory the holidays were a great rush of anticipation and enjoyment at being together again and then the dread of that moment of parting which always seemed to come around really quickly.