Friday, December 22, 2006

Jinja

Me and Trish at the Kingfisher Resort - the photo was taken just before my chair tipped backwards and dumped me unceremoniously on my head on the grass. lol.




Trish and Julie at the concrete block marking the Source of the Nile

Standing tall on the block

In the boat


Fishing

Bridge, with hydroelectric dam just about visible beyond.

People

The Fall 2006 eMi interns
The Girls

eMi EA Interns and Local Staff


Dinner at Pastor Fred's house on completion of the Amazing Grace Project

Nov photos. Warning: a bird was harmed in the making of some of these pictures...

Roasted grasshoppers for sale in Nakasero market in central Kampala. These baskets are BIG!

The turkey the day before Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving Day: Preparing to, umm, cut the turkey's head off...

David head-to-head with the turkey head...

What we ate for Thanksgiving Dinner after the bird was plucked, gutted, roasted & carved. :o)

Interns plus Semei on a boat on Lake Victoria - visiting the site of my next project :o)

With BJ... :o)


Kenya: Masai Mara

View over the Rift Valley, enroute to the Masai Mara



Rainbow over the Masai Mara and a few of the (many) safari vans...



Lioness killing a wildebeeste



Lion!



Stripes can be slimming...this is one of the slimmest-looking zebras I saw :o)



Leopard eating a red buck up in a tree



Elephants on the march



Cheeky cheetahs. These ones were the exception, but all the others, no matter which side you approached from, would deliberately roll over to face away from the safari vans and cameras...



Vultures gorging themselves - ugly birds with a comical gait



Another of the Big Five; Water Buffalo


Mother and baby


Masai traditional dancing


Alex, one of the sons of the village chief, starting a fire. A hardwood stick was twirled on a piece of softer wood until a hole was bored through, leaving hot cinders, which were used to ignite dry grass...