Fried fish for breakfast - delicious. Then we had our excursion onto the lake ("only" some 30 times bigger than little old Windermere) - one of the northern lakes of the Great Rift Valley. But first past goodness knows how many birds, whether it be on the approach to the jetty or on "bird sanctuary island". Just masses of pelicans, marabou storks, egrets, ibis and lots more.
Then, with more smaller birds wheeling and swooping all around us, it was across to an island monastery (I think we would call it a church) where "the Ark of the Covenant was brought for safe keeping some thousand years ago when mighty Aksum was under threat of invasion"). The locals kindly provided lunch in their (yet to be finished!) community hall - beautiful grilled fish.
On the ride back home, we went up to a pod of hippos. Great to be so close (say only 50 yards) that we could clearly hear them snorting and blowing, but we all felt that we were too close, and indeed one of them tried to attack us from below. Fortunately no damage (at least to us and the boat) but we recorded our displeasure on the questionnaire.
This is likely to be the last transmission for quite a long time - probably weeks!
Looks amazing...
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