Another fabulous day in the park, with lots of wildlife to see. We headed out early to find leopards, but were not so lucky. We did see many excellent birds, including the grey crowned crane, the other half of the Ugandan seal along with the ubiquitous kob. Emmy also spotted a tortoise, and retrieved it from it’s slow crawl away from the road.
Grey crested cranes
The Equator!
We stopped at the equator for the requisite tourist shot, and then went to the boat launch for a cruise on Kazinga channel. Connecting Lakes Albert and George, the British history is strong here. We sat for thirty minutes while the torrential rains cleared, and then were off to see more birds, hippos and crocodiles. We also passed a fishing village which had been there since before the park was established in the 1950s. Fishermen still head into the lake every evening, returning in the morning with their haul. The job is quite dangerous, and we were told that seven people from the village had been killed by hippos in the last few years. Still, we saw young men swimming, and one clearly showing off by diving under and surfacing near the boat to scare us.
Hippo and birds
Young crocodile
We came back at sunset, and got a few nice shots of the mountains of the moon rising above the floor of the rift valley.
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