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| Not a lot of great seating options, but the boat is perfect! |
We had a bit of a working weekend so we couldn't go out for a longer trip this weekend. Even though I don't necessarily prefer to take a taxing trip on Sunday, I am going to also be working a lot this week so I decided it would be important to get out and relax a bit! Nyumba ya Mungu can be a tiring trip due to the heat but since we learned the water was very low during our last trip, (
Trip I,
II,
III,
IV,
V & VI,
VII,
Trip VIII,
Trip IX,
Trip X,
Trip XI,
Trip XII,
Trip XIII) we thought it was a good time to go again to see if we could get even further into the reeds.
The trip to the lake was full of birding and on a whole quite unremarkable. It was very hot and for whatever reason we were really feeling the sun! The road is getting continually worse as massive trucks ferry sand from the communities around the lake. It's very sandy and in some places the sand conceals jagged rocks, so one must be careful while driving. We always laugh because it works out to be a pretty good birding pace (around 10 km/h) though if we were in a rush to get there I'm sure we'd think the road was long and it was too slow.
When we reached the lake we were pleased to see it was the lowest we've ever seen and we could finally navigate out to some dried up reed beds and see deeper into the various channels and swamps on the north side. There were probably more birds in than we've ever seen there and it was a lot of fun to see so many species in great number. The heat, however, got the best of us, and after two hours we retreated back to the car to eat lunch in the relative shade of our car!
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| The cows were very interested in the grass. |
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| Fisherman coming in from laying nets. |
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| View to the east. |
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| This is usually a river that we can't cross. The "bridge" is actually a boat. |
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