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We had some deliberate nature events but also caught some unplanned views of
domestic and semi-feral animals.
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Got his goat. This marabou stork just flew off when a couple of goats
started as usual to dine on anything. The marabou is more refined: he eats only
freshly dead meat. These guys were all in our backyard, so to speak, where we
stayed in Kakamega, Kenya, the city in which Ed taught 1961-63 and I taught 1963-65.
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Kakamega Forest is the now well-protected eastern remnant of the great
swath of former jungle, across the Congo (now called "Democratic Republic of"),
to western Africa. What animals are left are justifiably people-shy, but you
can hear the birdcalls especially in the early morning and there's some excellent
vegetation, as shown.
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Unsacred yet unconfined, these noble beasts roam free, though ultimately
they live in the service of human consumption. Note the fortuitous appearance
of the Swahili word MAZIWA - milk - in the sign at the top.
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Rock 'n' roofs, as found in Mwanza, the Chicago of Tanzania - or in any case its
second city. In fact it is also on a great lake, in this case Lake Victoria, second
only to Lake Superior in surface area. Chicago has way taller buildings of course,
but Mwanza's got great rocks.
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More rocks can be found, perhaps not surprisingly, on nearby Saanane Island,
a short boatride away from Mwanza. Here Ed checks out the local avian situation.
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What not to do: Sign reads: "Notice: It is forbidden ... " to do various
unsafe and destructive things, like defacing these great rocks, for example.
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More Saanane rocks
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Gazelle at Saanane, one of several that came to look at us. They must have
been brought here, as it would have been a heckuva long swim for them, but they
seem happy enough - happier than the caged hyena (not shown) and the caged lion
(also not shown).
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Longhorns with bicycle, near MacKay College, a 6-year high-school-plus-two,
just inside Kampala, the capital and hub of Uganda.
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