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Greene, H.
1990
November 5 (continued) snake started up the link. I palped a 2.3 g Hyperolius (the kind Bob calls "red," which is yellowish) from at a grazed & freshly eaten wood-first. It is colored like the previous, except no yellow on neck.
November 6 An early dawn, sleeping bag hiker; inspired by wonderful memories (the only privacy here is retreat into daydreams) and perhaps reading some Walt Whitman yesterday: "Just and musk, share two letters, M-S". Packed up and left ~1015h, arrived at a tea factory ~1150h to see about availability of their guest house. Roads in this region are so rough one has to hang on all the time to keep your head from suddenly crashing into the side of the truck. We arrived at our Ishasha Gorge campsite ~1245h Ishasha Gorge, NE boundary of Burinji Forest Reserve, Rukerwe District, Uganda This is a hot open campsite on a hill covered w/ grass, shrub and scattered saplings, overlooking to the SE to the Gorge on the edge of the Reserve; we walked for ~20 minutes through high grass and plantations to get here. Absolutely sweltering, and no drinking water yet. Jens bought 10 pineapples for ~$80 and three of us ate one in 5 minutes - and I'd just been thinking about pina this morning! W/in ½ hour the weather transformed dramatically to rain blowing in to our tarp, lightning, etc. - and us on a naked hilltop! We quick pulled tarps, ponchos, etc. over us, collect rain water off the tarp edges, and have another slice apiece off the rapidly dwindling salami I brought. The same guards go through a pretty funny routine (to me) of