We
leave at 7:30 for a game drive in our two Toyota Land Cruisers which
have been designed with pop-up roofs to facilitate game viewing. Each
holds seven plus a driver and today I ride shotgun. Riding in the front
left seat gives me a chance to chat with Ham who grew up near the
gorillas we will see later, but never saw one until he started guiding.
The seat gives me a better view of the road and the changing scenery
makes for a nice series of photos. We travel over dirt tracks to an area
where the Victoria Nile enters into Lake Albert through a wetland delta
before quickly exiting to the north as the Albert Nile.
Today the game viewing is fantastic with large herds of stately Giraffe, many wary Cape Buffalo, elegant Jackson's hartebeasts, a social elephant herd, and a pair of mating lions, which was a first sighting for many of us. The landscape is rolling grassland with acacia trees and palms dotting the view. Further on we are closer to the water the vegetation changes to low reeds and papyrus. We spend quite a lot of time looking for a shoebill, which is important to some of us (no luck with shoebills today). Returning to our lodge we race to beat the rain shower that is looming ahead, but pause to allow a group of giraffe to cross our track. Tomorrow we have a long travel day, so we have an unplanned afternoon to rest up.
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