Chris is hosting the annual Murchison Falls Fishing Competition at the lodge (largest Nile Perch caught was a massive 75kg) so mum, Leo and I have played in the sunshine, eaten avocados, drunk tea, put the world to rights and I've had a delicious night out with the girls.
She left for Entebbe airport this evening as a wild storm roared in off Lake Victoria. Leo and I huddled in the porch waving and shouting goodbye as the taxi sloshed it's way down the road like a small boat on high seas. The house feels empty with her gone and I know Leo will want to waddle into the spare room in the morning (hanging off my fingers like a baby chimp) trying to seek her out.
Earlier in the day, before the storm broke, we spent the morning at our piece of land on the River Nile planting trees and generally sweating like tourists in the hot and humid heat. On the short drive back to Jinja town we passed this guy on a moped carrying something on the back of it. In the words of my mother, 'whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the hell is that?? It looks like a giant pig wearing flippers.'
Shockingly it's a great big fish with it's head chopped off. Proof that you don't need to sit in a boat for hours in Murchison to catch 'the big one!'
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