Saturday 14 July 2012

Biodiversity at the crater lakes

Kibale is just east of Fort Portal.
Here is a clean and strong bore hole well. That name may not be right, but you get the idea. Our friend, Terry, helped Rotary to put in fifty wells for Kenya this winter.


Plants are used for medicinal uses in Uganda. This one treats malaria.


This one is dangerous if it gets in your eye.


This is a flower.


When ripe and dry, these seeds become the dark beads used for percussive musical purposes on the lower legs of dancing boys.


Those seeds were in here.


Goats eat this prickly thistle stuff...ouch! Every goat has a rope. Don't want him to goat anywhere he shouldn't!


Sweet potato crops:


Voila le pomme de terre dolce. (We met some Frenchy Italians tonight.)


Meet the Black Headed Heron. He just swallowed a snake.


Mango tree and a local.


Kibale toilet paper. You can't find the paper kind in this neck of the jungle.


We enjoyed this exquisite view from the crest of a hill.


Sylvester (speaks English) and David (knows the trail) divided the labour on our walk in Kibale (outside Fort Portal) this afternoon. Here is the end of the strangulation by grass.


Cassava


This thorny beast of a tree does something good, but I can't remember what.


One super-high tree house.


This plant is used to "increase a man's power". Women weave the dried leaves to make mats...hmmmm...


Yams


2 sets of hippo tracks on Hippo Highway:





Sorghum is used to make beer. Is this like hops?


The crater lakes viewed from the top of the world.


With love from Jen

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