Sunny invited Tara and me down to her site to look at hippos on the river. We hung out by the river side all morning, and finally! One hippo came cruising down the river. We saw it surface and then go back under.
We scrambled for our cameras and waited for it to come up again. I didn’t get any sweet pics of the hippo because I only saw its ears and nose as it came up for air. The second time it came up it was way past us. It was going at a pretty fast clip! So I have now seen a wild hippo. Hippo Watch 2010 was a great success. Thanks Sunny!
We also saw our couterpart, Lamin, on his fishing boat.
And we saw Commerce On The River Gambia.
A tugboat came by towing (count ‘em) 12 barges of groundnuts! 12! From Basse to Banjul!
It was an amazing sight. When the tugboat went by we all made the international ‘toot your horn’ sign and even got some old women passing by to join in.
We were all thrilled when they obliged.
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