Up at 5:15, breaky at 5:45, leave at 6:30. Very misty.

You should have heard the jungle noises last during the night…cool!

We are going to Kibale NP…. An 1.5+ hour journey to see the chimpanzees. Before we get there there were so many baboons. Then…… my camera decided not to work….. grrrr! What am I to do!!! I have come all this way to not to be able to use my camera is making me sick. I will have to check with the others to see if I can get some of their photos.

I will say that at the early part of our walk there were chimpanzees but they were high in the trees. I’m thinking “is this all we will be seeing” but ……. Wow….. right at our feet, some laying splayed out on the ground and some checking their fellow mates for bugs and then eating the bugs. It’s called grooming. They are really fastidious. Our guide tells us that it is, beside doing a service to each other, that it is a sign of love. Because our DNAs are close to each other, we were all required to wear masks so as to not pass anything along to the other.

It was so stinking hot, the perspiration was running into my eyes & off the end of my nose …. It made me so nauseous. I think I need to drink more water.

There are 8 different species of primates on swamp walk.

200 birds …. None were pointed out.

Super sodia is the red tulip tree

Red tailed colobus… 2 were grooming

Simpson green mamba

Black vervet monkey

We didn’t see all of the walk cuz it was just too hot and humid…… again feeling sick.

Some of the gals stay in camp for the day. I am envious that they have had their “batteries” recharged.

Where we will be staying at our next stop, is 37 kms from Congo border