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RE: Watusi Woman - Maritime Melaka Sailor

in ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY2 years ago

Wow! What an adventurous life you must be living! Touring the many different places on a yacht!! Wow! Just wow! It's like from the movies.
I enjoyed reading and looking at the beautiful photos of the places you've just been to.
What an interesting name for a cafe, the Baboon house cafe!
The burger looked delicious!

Anyways, upon reading your profile name"watusi" I thought you are a fellow Filipina like me from my hometown Cebu because that's what we call a firecracker we use when I was a kid during Christmas and New Year, the Watusi.
But upon seeing your Profile you are from Australia... Haha.. so funny, I just want to share it with you though. What your profile name represents.
Enjoy sailing and be safe always!!!

A watusi is a type of Christmas firework that is popular in the Philippines. Its ingredients are yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene. The ingredients in the firework are highly toxic, and ingestion can lead to painful death. Wikipedia

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 2 years ago  

Thanku for reading and enjoying my posts. Yep, from Australia but the name Watusi is from an African tribe also known as the Tutsi tribe. She was named that when we bought her and we love the name so there was no need to change it. We plan on sailing through the Philippines so it's good to know the Watusi reference for firecrackers. Thanks for that bit of knowledge.

 2 years ago  

Oh! So it came from an African Tribe the name Watusi.
Wow!can't wait to see your adventures here in the waters of the pearl of the orient seas, Philippines!😍🥰