To fully encapsulate any journey via photography is all but impossible. Even if you spend nearly every moment behind the lens, the best you can do is get images that evoke memories. You will also inevitably miss something. For me, nature makes this point emphatically. There are species of birds that would practically perch on my hands, they were so common, yet I have no photographic evidence of them at all for the simple reason that they would seemingly vaporize the moment I trained my camera on them. Sometimes the lighting conditions or some other environmental factor made a clear shot beyond my ability. I defy anyone to find one recognizable form in my pictures from the fruit bat cave.
Jinja is a beautiful place on the headwaters of the Nile. If you are looking for the "Big Five", seek elsewhere. It is however so full of life that even I managed to get a couple decent photos. A startling number of these are from the grounds of my campgrounds
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| Long-tailed Cormorant |
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| Red Tailed Monkey |
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| Little Egret |
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| African Openbill |
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| Giant Kingfisher |
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| Pied wagtails bumming a ride |
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| Tantallus Monkey |
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| Ross's Turaco |
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| Black Kite |
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| Woodland Kingfisher |
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| Purple Heron |
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| Water Thick Knee |
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| Hammerkop perched on the boathouse |
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| Eastern Gray Plantain Eaters |
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| The common but magnificent Variable Sunbird |
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| Great Cormorant |
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| Black Kite Nest |
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| The difficult to photograph Malachite Kingfisher |
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| A volunteer assisting me with my bird identification |
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