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Post for June 16, 2018
Day trip to southern Uganda. First stop was Ssezibwa Waterfalls. It was a nice, short walk in front of, then above the waterfall. Lots of great pictures. And I got a bug picture! We got back into the vans and Dr. Brady pointed out some tea and sugar plants for us.
Our next stop was a forest walk. Sadly, I didn’t get to hear the guide too much, but it was a pretty walk. It was funny to watch everyone’s reactions to bugs- real and imagined. The butterflies at this place were amazing. So many and such a variety. There was one that was about the size of my hands together and was a bright green.
Then to the tourist town of Jinja. We ate lunch and I had the fish. We then went to the source of the Nile river on a boat. I sat in the back and got annoyed with my life jacket. I took it off. Such a rebel. We saw a lot of birds and a monitor lizard on an island. Our boat stopped at a floating building that gave us access to the zero-point of the Nile river, where it meets Lake Victoria. I got to stand at that zero-point on a rock! The guide told us that the water we saw flowing past us now would take 3 months to reach the end of the Nile and out to the Mediterranean. Pretty darn neat.