It's pretty amazing just how much people can load onto their bikes or motorcycles here. We've seen kitchen table sets, bundles of metal rebar, large storage trunks, stacks of beer crates 4 high, and this guy with about a dozen empty water jerry cans. These loads are certainly the norm, rather than the exception.
Barb and I went back to Aero Beach this weekend, and arrived hungry. Luckily they will serve you food and drink on the beach, so we were excited to hear that they had fish and chips available. Not exactly the English style breaded fish sticks, the dish arrived with a whole tilapia and a side of chips! Yum... it was actually quite tasty despite the somewhat terrifying appearance.
We got comfortable with the baboons visiting the camp, though not too comfortable... they're still pretty scary sounding even if the young ones are really cute.
Here's the current water setup, hopefully just the very short-term setup. We procured the large 1000L tank and managed to fill it with a few trips to the local well, with the 10 new jerry cans that we also bought. Hopefully we can soon run a long pipe from the adjacent hillside, to pump spring water into the tank and keep it topped up. Until that happens, the guys will have to continue filling jerry cans and bringing them back to the camp on a bicycle.
Lots of small villages grow coffee among their matooke banana trees, and they lay out the crop in the sun to dry. I think some of the coffee is for their own use, while the rest is traded or sent to a local coffee co-operative for packaging and sale. Ugandan coffee is pretty good, but we're heading to Ethiopia next week where I hear the coffee is even better.
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