For the coming year, I plan to continue to challenge myself to explore new places, walk my own path, and plan adventures to the places that call to me.
That’s what I did in 2016, and it has been a fabulous year.
From my time in the Masai Mara in September, the dawn of a new day.
I was going through my folder of edited photos and realized I have a large number of random bird photos ready to go. Which is good, because I’ve not managed to get out and capture any of the local wildlife lately!
Even splitting the group of photos I found into two, I’ve still got a fair number of bird photos to post in the future!
I hope you enjoy, and have a great day!
A magpie shrike perched in an acacia tree.A lilac breasted roller perching beautifully for a photo.A pair of kori bustards in the Kalahari Desert.A green backed heron hunting along the edge of a dam.A brown hooded kingfisher.A sacred ibis flies over on of the swamps of the Okavango Delta.An African wood hoopoe.
My first day in Buhoma in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, my group took an afternoon village walk with a local guide. It was a very interesting experience, as we had the opportunity to tour the local school and meet one of the teachers and some of the students, walk through the village market and trek up the hill to visit the pygmy village.
I must admit, the walk up the the pygmy village had me winded and left me very worried for the gorilla trek that happened the following day! Here I was huffing and puffing along, and had young children passing me carrying large containers of water home; it certainly made me appreciate the luxury of opening a tap at home for water even more than I did before.
A welcome dance from the Batwa villagers. Wearing hats made of natural materials was very important to the elders of the group.
After we left the pygmy village, we stopped to talk with locals making banana beer and banana gin (I passed up the opportunity to try either), and were treated to another dance by a group of locals.
Near one of the shops in the village I spotted this sign; what an excellent example of diversified business strategies!