In our first day in Murchison Falls, we took a cruise on the Nile, followed by a hike to the top of the falls.
Murchison Falls is the site of the movie “The African Queen” starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, and directed by John Huston.
The making of the movie was an adventure. Pit latrine outhouses were used, and due to the cast drinking foul water, everyone but Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston came down with dysentery. Bogart and Huston supposedly were protected by drinking large quantities of Scotch. Released in 1952, this was Bogart’s only best actor Oscar. There was a time when there was a long line in front of a pit-latrine when a woman came screaming out of it after having encountered a poisonous Black Mamba. A few years earlier, Ernest Hemingway clipped a telephone line and crash landed near Murchison Falls. He was rescued a few days later by a man who later piloted one of the three “African Queens” used in the movie..
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don’t keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you’ve got to fight it every minute of the day.”
― Katharine Hepburn, The Making of The African Queen, or: How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
Hippos were a big attraction
This crocodile is over her nest waiting for her babies to hatch.
In this amazing close-up you can see the mom flipping one of her newly hatched babies back to her throat pouch to carry down to the water.
The baby crocs
A family of Baboons
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African Bald Eagle
Hello there!
Great Egret
Two Kingfishers looking out two directions
A not so wild Peace Corps Volunteer
We disembarked near here to begin our hike to the falls
The hike was not strenuous at all. Here you can see how the Nile gets squeezed through some narrow channels.
