A Blog Post With Pictures!

As I alluded to in my prior blog post, we had an exciting weekend planned. This mainly involved a trip to the Abuko Nature Reserve, a small but dense and diverse plot of land in the middle of the Serrekunda suburb of Abuko. This was a small taste of a real African rainforest, and I was absolutely fascinated by some of the things I saw. I have below a bunch of pictures to post both about our trip to Abuko and about our trip in general. I hope you enjoy them.

Above: Some hyenas lounging around. These were some big boys.

Above: A monkey (Nameus Unknownus)

 Above: Me and Nurse Jakka's son, Muhammad. I don't

think he very much enjoyed my company.

Above: A fisherman at dusk. My inability to shoot a clear photo actually

turned into a neat result: an impressionist photograph. 

Above: Independence Stadium, the largest stadium in The Gambia. 

Austin and I use the gym facility located inside. 

Above: A pond/swamp at the Abuko Nature Reserve. Our tour 

guide told us that about a dozen crocodiles inhabit this water, although

we didn't see any on our excursion.

Above: Me breaking the law.

Above: One of the most humorous political billboards I have ever seen. If

you cannot zoom in, it says: "From darkness to light with President Jammeh. You

cannot afford to continue hating yourself by not voting for him in 2011."