On the Marina to sail and golf, history and wildlife
Published Saturday Nation magazine 16 September 2017
Above: New golf course at Lake Victoria Serena Resort and Spa near Entebbe, Uganda – copyright Rupi Mangat
“Are you going to Entebbe?” asks the man on the side of the road that’s sandwiched between one of the largest swamps in Uganda that stretches all the way to the north and is home to rare wildlife like Shoebill stork.
Above: Caring moment – Mother rhino and calf at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Courtesy: Angie Genade, Executive Director Rhino Fund Uganda
Published Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper August 26. 2017
and chancing upon the rare Shoebill stork
In 2001, on a visit to Uganda – the land that Winston Churchill in 1907 coined ‘the Pearl of Africa’ – l saw a Shoebill stork that is now a rare bird of the wetlands mostly found in Uganda at Entebbe zoo. Being so rare, l thought l would never see it in the wild.
Discovering more of the Nile at Murchison Falls and looking for chimpanzees in Uganda
Published 19 August 2017 – Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper
Above: Chimpanzee baby playing in the forest – Image by: Michael Nichols
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“When the crocodile jumps into the boat, you jump out,” tells our guide on the sail to reach the base of Murchison falls.
The Nile crocodile is gigantic – almost 15 feet long lying still as a statue with gaping jaws revealing a set of sharp-pointed teeth. My childhood memory is of the banks lined with crocodiles – we see only four now.
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Published in Saturday Nation 12 August 2017
In 1907, Winston Churchill the English statesman stood where we stand and exclaimed ’10 pounds will suffice to throw an iron bride across’. We’re on top of Murchison Falls, our faces wet with the spray of the water where the mighty Nile, reputed to be the world’s longest river squeezes through its narrowest point – just 20 feet across to crash some 130 feet down over red rocks that gleam in the morning sun.
The falls raged – our faces wet with the spray of water. Not from any ordinary river but the great Nile. Here we were, my nephew and l standing on sheer rock, spell bound by the force of the falls.
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