Game Drive & Boat Ride - What a day!

It has been wonderful traveling here, no issues and no crowds.  For the most part the lodges are empty, which is sad, although it is the low season.  Hopefully tourism will pick up for this beautiful country.

 

 

I finally got my passion fruit for breakfast!  OMG I love that those things!  Quick breakfast then off for a morning game drive… off to find more lions. 

We hadn’t got very far and we came upon a herd of elephants with several babies… baby elephants are the cutest!  It is amazing how quiet elephants are when the walk… you cannot hear anything but them moving through the tall grass.  While we were watching the elephants, Kim and I were being eaten alive by bugs… time to bring out the 100% deet!  We stood outside our vehicle spraying each other in hopes the biting would stop and it did! :^)  The bugs have definitely intensified here!

Next we found a female lion in the trees, watched her and waited hoping she would come down… and sure enough she didn’t disappoint… once she was on the ground we followed her for quite a while, she got a drink from the puddles of water in the road

 

Before heading back to our lodge for lunch we stopped at a small village to stretch and have a bathroom break… oh my… it was worse than the last stop!

 

 

 

While driving around with Davis today, we learned that when he married his wife he had to pay 35 cows for a bride price – he got 10 from his Dad and it took 2 years to buy the rest.  He now has an 18-month old daughter!

In the afternoon we did a boat ride on the Kiznga Chanel – it was beautiful.  Full of birds, reptiles, elephants and hippos!  This channel connects Lake George and Lake Edward (Can you tell this use to be a British Colony?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw a monitor lizard dragging a huge fish the bank, the fish was bigger than him.

 

 

We went by a small fishing village where the locals were leaving their homes walking down to their boats to go out fishing for the night.  The fishermen stay out all night then return in the morning with the fish.

 

Now I am enjoying a passion fruit margarita while I write this blog.  OMG this thing is good!!!! The best internet connectivity is in the bar...yippee!

I’m pretty sure Kim and Gina have discovered our love for Africa!

Quotes:

-        What do you when you can’t eat all the food you are served? “Mess it up” – Cheryl

Thankfully nothing to add to casualty report today!!!