I usually don’t take pictures of the places that I stay at, but this particular lodge was very cool. We were in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. The two story huts had great balconies off the backside and amazing views out across the plains. You can’t tell from this picture, but elephants were walking around down there in the valley below.
It’s been a while since I posted a gorilla so here’s another one from Bwindi National Park in Uganda. This baby was crawling all over its mother’s back, swinging from vines and playing with one of the other two babies in the troop.
In Entebbe, Uganda, vervet monkeys are so common, they’re kind of like squirrels are here. We were in a city park when we came across a troop of them playing and eating in a stand of bamboo. You might recall an earlier shot of a vervet that I sent a while back featuring the spectacular blue of the adult males.
After several days of failing to get any decent views of chimpanzees, we finally came across a tree in a clearing by a river that had about 8 of them getting ready for nightfall. This mother and baby were pretty high up in the tree. I used my longest lens and cropped in quite a bit.
Ever since my first trip to Tanzania I’ve been a fan of the warthog. Ugly little bastards but I like them. This guy was racing alongside our vehicle allowing me to get some nice blurred action shots.
Here’s another mountain gorilla from my Ugandan trip. This female had been resting under those bushes before she lifted her head up to see what was going on.
On my trip to Uganda, chimpanzees in the wild proved more difficult to photograph than I had hoped . Most of the time when we spotted them, they were high in the trees with difficult lighting conditions and tough angles due to all the foliage and vines. At this location, however, in Queen Elizabeth National Park, we finally happened upon a troop that provided a few easier looks, including this guy who apparently just received some surprised news.
It’s somewhat unusual to catch hippos out of the water. I was in a boat when I saw this mother and baby behind a flock of cormorants in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.
This is a blue gamma lizard from somewhere in Uganda. Shelley and I were eating lunch at an open air restaurant when we saw this guy creeping up that tree trunk and looking out over the savannah below.