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Sept. 15/23-Bwindi Impenetrable NP, Uganda

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Before beginning our climb, we were entertained by some of the former bush dwellers ( pygmies although not particularly short).

Bwindi is where we saw the mountain gorillas. The name of the park is Bwindi “Impenetrable” meaning that you cannot see through it….it is a jungle that has be slashed with machetes to get through.

Talk about hard working women! Farming in a most primitive way….on the side of a hill….wow!
Our gorilla guide “Expert”
Gerus (civil engineer) and Bridget (obstetrician)… newly weds
Banadas…. My porter
Baby
Silverback is one big boy
I think this was Sue’s picture
2 youngsters
Marilyn’s
See how close I am…amazing!
Someone else’s picture
Can you imagine walking down this rugged road with a baby on your back and a suitcase on your head!!!

View from our lodge at Rushaga

Sept 14 -missed pictures leaving QE NP to Bwindi Impenetrable NP

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Lioness and 2 cubs
4 lioness’
5 lioness’
Rift valley
Grey crowned crane-Uganda’s national bird
Lake Nkugute
Tea plantation
Kyamuhunga town
Wood used in the fermenting of tea
Obviously a business woman walking to work, chatting on her cell phone
Hanging beef….no refrigeration!
Stopped for lunch at this restaurant that had beautiful gardens
Amaryllis
Ginger
Grasshopper catcher
Shoes for sale
Vegetable stand
Farms on the sides of the hills…windy roads
Lantana
Now there’s a load of bananas
Fashions for sale
Loaded!
Terraced hillsides & very fertile lowlands
Potatoes for market
Imagine trying to farm these hillsides
This will give you some idea what these people have to farm on

Sept. 12&13/23-missed pictures-Queen Eliz. NP

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Kiln
Houses made with poles and mud…. Just
Euphorbia forest
Mom and babe
African wattled lapwing (Sue Gilmer)
Black headed gonolock
Black-headed gonoleck

These 2 videos are of the elusive leopard….the one in still above.

Below is of the Kazinga Channel between Lake Edward and Lake George

Storks and water buffalos
Yellow billed storks
African “bush” elephant
A couple of weavers getting it on
Kingfishers
Fish eagle
Jacanas
I think he must have been fishing
Pam, Sue, Gail, Marilyn and Linda with Arthur overlooking the Rift Valley

Sept 10 & 11/23-pictures in Fort Portal, Kibale chimps

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Sausage tree
Sausage tree
Datura (Angel’s Trumpet)
Datura
Papyrus
Papyrus
Staghorn Fern
African lily
Agapanthus
Datura
The grounds of Kluges Guest Farm was soooo lovely

Below is from the chimpanzee walk….

Big daddy baboon
Baboons
These are pictures taken only with my phone. They aren’t bad in video form. I will try
We all have to wear masks so because we have very similar DNA to the chimps, don’t want to pass germs to one another
Cool looking mushroom
I am so stinking hot, hot, hot!!!
Black & White Colobus
Colobus
Red tailed colobus
Shelter for watchmen….terrible!
Black vervet monkey
Chimps grooming
Shrieking chrimp

Sept 9 & 10/23 missing pictures-entering Uganda …Kampala to Fort Portal

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Hadeda ibis @ Entebbe airport
Kampala….. Lake Victoria
Nice highways
Nice homes, great idea used to block headlight glare
At Forest Cottages Hotel.
At Forest Cottages Hotel.
At Forest Cottages Hotel.

Sept 10…

Hordes of people
Woodworking shop?
A nursery
Matok bananas
Stone tiles
Bed frames
Metal doors
Hanging meat….no refrigeration but only there for the
Marching band followed by teachers and all the students
Fresh veggies
Road construction…bridge building
Gas station
Just a bit of rain!
This truck had an issue…. Parts all over the road.
Chickens for sale
King of Tooro Kingdom. Father died when he was 3…but became king at 18
Chimpanzee crossing
Self explanatory
Tea plantation
Huge…..Staghorn ferns
One of the two (see below) armed guys looking after the parking lot of this restaurant

Sept. 8/23….pictures missed from the last day in Kenya

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Sunrise as we are leaving
Mattress’ for sale
Colourful clothing
Every vehicle is loaded
Satellite dishes
In this case it looks like pots and pans for sale
View if the Rift Valley
Trucks and more truck over this high mountain. Highway
Oopsy!!!
Everything and anything for sale over there
Extremely huge blooms on this “Cup of Gold” vine
At the women’s workshop where they learn different skills
The place we said our final goodbyes to John
John our CEO
From hotel room in Nairobi
Heron Portico hotel in Nairobi
Heron Portico hotel in Nairobi

Sept. 7/ 23 missing pictures of Maasai Mara

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Nakuru Zebras
Tails look like they are braided
Topi antelope and zebras
Hyenas
Zebras
Captain of our balloon ride
Giraffe
Warthog burrows
Thomson gazelles in an area of controlled burn
One lonely tree
These are all from the hot air balloon ride above the Maasai Mara
Thomson gazelles
Eland
Topi antelope
Hyena
Topi antelope and Nakuru Zebras
These two were having so much fun playing in the mud
More lioness’
A solitary cheetah
Grey Heron
Weaver birds
Tanzania/Kenya border
Wildebeast
Nakuru Plains Zebras & thousands of Wildebeests
Nakuru Plains Zebras & thousands of Wildebeests
Hippo
Hippos and a tern(?)
Little Bee-eater
Croc
Croc
Hippo
Yellow billed stork
Egyptian Goose
A couple of hippos sparring
Life in the Mara River

Southern Ground Hornbill
Leopard kill…baby zebra
Cheetah taking a snooze
Snoozing cheetah
Village
Disgusting garbage
Ladies returning to Maasai Mara village after “work”

Sept 4 & 5/23 ….missing pictures….to Nakuru

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This is a little confusing cuz I added pictures to existing posts but no one seemed to get them so…..again i apologize if I am repeating some.

Hyenas
Female waterbuck
Waterbuck-male-Samburu NP
Nerenuk (giraffe antelope…stands on hind legs to eat)-Samburu NP
Markets along the road
Could be anywhere along the highway in Canada
Mt. Kenya
Acacia trees
Couple of rhinos making out
Me at the Equator….in Kenya
Lush countryside on way to Nakuru NP
So different than Samburu NP
Logging Kenya style
Greenhouses in background for growing flowers
Tea plantation
Herding cattle and sheep along the road
Horse riding farm
Burchell Starling
Nakuru zebras
Couple of brothers
This lioness had a collar
Youngster hiding
Hunting
Here comes a herd of Zebras
Pumbas
Just look at that ugly face
Momma and baby rhino
Flamingos
Yellow-billed cranes
Spoonbill
Spoonbill
Yellow billed crane, Egyptian goose & cormorants
Grey crane
Fish Eagle
Cormorants
African water buffalo
African buffalo
Praying mantis
Black & White Colobus
Baboons
Vervet monkey
Peek-a-boo….I see you!
Buffalo
Oxpecker on Buffalo
Mega Buffalo
The group in Kenya
John our CEO
Lilac breasted roller

Sept 3…Samburu NP to Nakuru NP pictures that were missed

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Beisa Oryx-Samburu
Beisa Oryx and baby-Samburu
Beisa Oryx-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
African elephants-Samburu
Warthogs-Samburu
Warthogs-Samburu
Yellow-billed Stork
Male impala
1 male impala and his harem of 20 females
Red-billed Oxpecker
Gerenuk (giraffe antelope)
Cattle egrets follow the elephants
African Fish-Eagle
African Fish-Eagle
Grevys Zebra
Baboons
Secretarybird
Northern (Beira) Oryx & Red-billed Oxpecker
Guinea fowl
Couple of lioness’ on the river bank
This old guy seems to be blind in one eye
He was just huffing and puffing
Momma elephant and her babe
Sunset on the 3rd