And more from Lake Baringo

More from Lake Baringo

Birds of Lake Baringo

Here are some photos from our Lake Baringo trip.

Birthday cake

Birthday cake presentation with staff at Island Camp.

Sundowner boat ride

We took a sundowner boat ride and climbed the island they call "Gibraltar" where we had Tuskers while the sun went down. We did this little excursion celebrating somebody's 50th birthday. But I'm not saying who.

Owl

Susan spotted an owl in the tree above our veranda!

Birds

Apparently, birds love butter! Alfresco lunch at Island Camp.

Island Camp

Here's our "tent".

Boating to Island Camp

Here's the pier and us boating to the island.

Morning rounds

It's Saturday morning. The docs walked to the ward and checked on the surgery patients that haven't been discharged yet. Some others walked to town to stretch their legs. Now we are on our way out of town for our weekend getaway.

Young patient

How cute is this little boy? He's not an ENT patient but Susan spotted him and snapped this photo. He was in the post-op critical care area and has since been discharged; at least from that area.

Irish Pub

Friday night we had dinner at "The Well", Eldoret's Irish Pub. It was packed, tables were hard to come by, and the kitchen was backed up. But it was fun all the same.

Top picture: Our remaining group. Deb has left to go back to the US as scheduled, so eight of us remain for the duration.

Bottom photos: Joel and I ordered the fish and chips. We were quite surprised when we received, well, fish and chips.

building a house

My friend Nicholas (front) drove me and Francis (rear) to show me where Francis has purchased 1/2 an acre of land and will build a house. It's a long process here. He will get construction loans and build the house in stages. He has had foundation stones and sand delivered. He hopes to have it complete enough to live in a year from now.

postage

I run errands for the medical team. One request today was to go to the post office and buy stamps to send some mail. I had to lick the stamps. I forgot what that was like. It seems like we've had self-adhesive stamps forever in the US. I appreciate them more today. Yuck.

game of chicken

It may be hard to see, but theres's a luggage rack on top of this bus in the center. It's full of live chickens. They are bound so they can't fly away.

sporting goods store

Kip Keino won Olympic gold medals in 1968 and 1972 as a distance runner.  He's from the area and one of his ventures is this sporting goods store in Eldoret.  My friend Francis (2nd photo) took me here today to buy a volleyball.  

Why am I buying a volleyball?  Last year we visited the local school on the island in Lake Baringo.  We played volleyball with girls who board at the school.  Diana wants to bring them a gift of a new volleyball and net, so that's how I ended up at the sporting goods store.  We will go to Lake Baringo tomorrow for our weekend getaway and Diana will deliver her gifts. Don't tell anyone on the island as it's a surprise ;-)

The Eldoret area is at a high elevation, 7,000'+ above sea level, so distance runners train here to build their endurance by running in the thin air.  Kip Keino was the forerunner (get it?) of Kenyan runners.  Learn more at http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipchoge_Keino or http://m.search.eb.com/topic/314227.

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poinsetta

They grow'em big in Kenya! This one is over 10' tall.

market, Friday

I went to the market again Friday, this time with Theresa. Here she is buying some mangos and oranges.

market

Deb and I visited the vegetable market Wednesday. Photos can't convey scope and size of the market, the chaos, colors, and smells. Many homemakers shop for fresh foods every day because refrigeration is a luxury and uncommon in most homes.

Imani workshop

Surgeries ended a little early on Wednesday afternoon due to a couple of cancelations, so some stayed at the hospital to finish post-op rounds while others went to visit the Imani workshop. Rather than me trying to explain what it is, their website does a better job than I can. http://www.ampathkenya.org/our-programs/family-preservation-initiative/imani-workshop/.

In the 3rd photo, Naomi, our tour guide, is talking to Bruce, Kathi, and Joel.

The fourth photo shows an artisan slicing pages from an Oprah magazine. These are rolled in an adhesive and become colorful beads for jewelry. Finished beads are sorted by color and shown in the last photo. Oprah magazines are preferred as the pages are typically very colorful. Donated magazines are shipped from Indiana to the workshop in Eldoret.