Answers to your questions I’ve been getting a few questions from people over email, so here are some answers: – What am I eating? There’s African food and European food. Most days I eat European because that’s what is served to me. Heavy on the meat (chicken steak, pork) and potatoes, with occasional salad, green beans or peas. Pasta, lasagna. French bread is served at […]
View of Fernan Vaz Lagoon as I flew to Iguela on Friday. The Atlantic Ocean is at the top of the picture on the far side of the slender peninsula. I also saw a group of humpback whales from the plane! Iguela Last Friday I flew from Libreville to Port Gentil and on to Iguela, which sits on Ngowe Lagoon about halfway down the coast
More on the Mamiwata Legend As I explained earlier, Mamiwata is a general name for a spirit embodied by the manatee, that people in many West African countries believe in. In different regions there are different interpretations of what the spirit looks like and what acts it performs. Because she is female, it’s believed Mamiwata is looking for a husband, and tries to lure men
By the way…On most of the pictures I’m posting, you can click on them to see a larger version. This will help with the bird and animal pictures where it looks like a spec! Sorry, I don’t have a National Geo quality lens and the wildlife doesn’t get as close as I’d like… or else it’s not safe for me to get any closer to
Alittle more on Evaro Sorry, my posting was cut short yesterday because I had to leave Libreville and catch a plane down the coast to Iguela, which I’ll write about shortly. I wanted to share a few more images from Evaro: Fresh manatee feeding sign in a cove off Lake Evaro. The grass is matted down where the manatees push it down and feed further
Evaro After a night in Lambarene (at a very nice hotel on the river that had monkeys and some antelope called Situtunga), Nic and I were met by a boat and taken to Evaro Lodge. The owners of the lodge, which is located on a lake south of Lambarene, are very interested in supporting wildlife research and manatee work in particular. Evaro Lodge sits on
Lambarene After Kango, Nic and I travelled to Lambarene, a larger town on the Ogooue River and the fishing capital of Gabon. South of Lambarene there’s a series of large lakes (if you scroll down to my Sept. 17 posting, you can see Lambarene, the river and the lakes near the top of the map). It’s a freshwater system; there isn’t much fishing in the
More Pictures from KangoThe morning’s bushmeat catch coming into the market at Kango. They have a small crocodile, a monkey and 2 porcupine-like animals. I must say it’s hard to see first hand. Seeing it in a magazine in the states I think “what a shame”, but here, seeing the huge numbers of animals coming into the markets each day from the forests, it’s really
Kango It’s been a busy week! On Sept. 21 Nic and I got a ride to a small town called Kango, about a 2 hour drive inland from the capital of Gabon, Libreville. Kango is located at the convergence of several rivers, and a couple years ago Nic and Tim photographed a manatee hunter there with a carcass. We were able to go back and