Today started with a very early and completely amazing boat trip on Lake Baringo. The landscape was incredible and we got to see local wildlife including a fish eagle plucking a fish out of the water and a pair of hippos.
We then loaded up the vehicles and head into town for a breakfast of fried bread and eggs and then on to the Longiwan Integrative Child Development Center. The work Sam has coordinated at this site includes a nursery school building;a water supply and treatment facility for the nursery school, elementary school, and local community; garden area with grass for cattle feed and thatching roofs, millet, and maringa; and bee hives. The community fed us a very generous lunch of agali, rice, maringa leaves, chicken, and goat. On the ride back we saw monkeys and ostriches.
We spent the afternoon relaxing around the cabins and were visited by one of Sam's favorite birds, a Paradise Fly Catcher.
We will be up early tomorrow for the second half of the trip to Marich Pass and our main project while here. We will not have internet service once we leave Lake Baringo but think we have sorted Twitter out so, we should be able to send updates but, they will be brief.
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