Lake Duluti Trip IV

Top of the ridge with the plains in the background.

This year, Tanzanian Independence Day (commemorating December 9th, 1961) had an interesting twist with the newly elected president canceling traditional (and expensive) celebrations and instead mandating the citizens of Tanzania to participate in a "cleaning day".  These types of populist decisions prove popular with people, though I found it somewhat misguided that instead of celebrating Tanzania's independence and remembering the history, as well as looking forward to the future, the government commanded citizens to voluntarily do what the government systems should be doing (keeping streets and public places clean). However, people get overly excited at these decisions and tend not to look too deeply into them, and luckily for us, our house and yard are very small.

This allowed us to do our cleaning quickly and embark on a midweek trip to Lake Duluti (Trip I, Trip II, Trip III). It was a pretty average day for as at Duluti with very few other visitors and some relatively nice weather. There were a lot of clouds which was nice during the first half of the day when we walked the ridge, but this later gave way to rain, which wasn't so bad inside the forest but still less than ideal. We were also happy that the main ranger seemed to be recognizing us as though we were becoming regulars.

The rain resulted in fewer pictures, but this entry goes more for posterity sake than anything since Lake Duluti trips are all more or less the same. Beautiful walk in the woods!

Taking a walk along the ridge.

Checking for some birds inside the forest.