Kajie Safaris –
Uganda
Day 2: 29th November 2018
Today's drive
Like I was saying the views from Eagles Nest are
spectacular, but I discovered that I hadn’t turned the GPS on in my camera. (my
bad)
view to the left
view straight ahead
view to the right
view to the right (zoomed in)
view even further to the right
Our man Ronald from Kajie Safaris
We got up at 6am this morning so we could do the early
morning game drive, however we only just started the game drive when we got the
call for the boat ride on Lake Mburo so we turned around and headed for the Lake.
We meet Dale and Dan on our boat cruise on Lake Mburo, the
first thing they said to me was that they were Trump hating Americans. It’s a
bit sad when that’s what someone has to say when you meet them. Dale was New
Mexico & Dan was from Nebraska, he thought we had never heard of Nebraska,
but I told him that’s where Penny was from and we all had a laugh.
Both Dan & Dale were avid bird watchers and had
organised a Bird watching Safari. Dan was a Bird Biologist, whilst Dale
discovered bird watching in grad school around a lunch table. They were really
excited to see the African Fin foot and it was fantastic to share the boat with
them because we got to learn all about the different birds. I have to say my
favourite birds were the African Fish Eagle and the Kingfishers.
Fish Eagle
Fish Eagle in the middle of the Lake
Fish Eagle in the middle of the Lake (zoomed in)
a pair of Fish Eagles
some random bird
Pied Kingfisher
Kingfisher (blurry)
Pied Kingfisher
yellow beaked red foot bird
Kingfisher
the magnificent shiny bird
the African Finfoot
We got to see a flat dog (Nile crocodile) and lots of hippos
up close.
After the boat ride we went back to the game drive, we saw
the usual suspects Zebras, Impala, Buffalo. But then we got to see some new
animals.
the Bush Buck (hiding)
Zoomed in
Eland (rare sighting!)
Eland with a bird
What can you see?
if you guess Giraffe you were right
Once we finished the game drive we headed out of Lake Mburo
NP and towards the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, gorillas here we come!!!
Most of the days driving was on very good tarmac roads,
which would put some WA roads to shame.
We passed what appeared to be a school performance, with the
kids all dressed in bright colours. The kids were excited to see us so they
started waving as we drove by, I wanted to get a pot of them but we thought it
would disturb the school performance even more.
There was some stunning scenery as we wound through the beautiful
Kigezi Hills, described to us by Ronald as “the Switzerland of Africa”.
I learnt something new today as well, Ronald told me that
the population of Uganda in 2007 /2008 (when CHOGM & I were last here) was
around 33 Million, now the population is at approximately 42 Million. You can
draw your on conclusions as to the reason for the 27.3% increase in population.
Eventually we turned off the main road, onto a good dirt
road, then onto an exciting 4WD adventure which led us to the amazing Rushaga
Gorilla Lodge.
The Rushaga Gorilla Lodge is another amazing place, the room
is enormous and you have to see the shower / bathroom to believe it. Having
said that I though the bed was like sleeping on elevated concrete with material
over the top, Lisa on the other hand thought it was great.
Great update guys. Love the silverback photos
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