Ben Wilhelmi

Butiaba and the floods, lake Albert, part II

 

 

 

A massive highway project is still going on but help to the people? Apparently not.

 

 

 

These guys took a bath further away, away from sewage and potential cholera...

 

Previous marking of water level.

A rare smile that day...

 

 

 

Nile cabbage everywhere...

 

Salvaving is a common occupation...

The over cautious cyclist wearing a motorbike helmet.

 

The very end of the road. No quay, harbor, ferry boat...

 

Uganda, roadside life

 

 

I don't want to diminish the Tanzanian drivers, riders and others but the Ugandan road "skills" are a step "higher". For example 3 passengers and maybe cargo is a common sighting here, even in cities where the cops don't even bother to stop the habit. Their driving skills in traffic jam is also one league away...I owe an apology to all the Tanzanian drivers I might have abused in the past for what was in comparison amateur recklessness.

 

Lukewarm attitude towards Covid...and cool rubber boots.

 

The guy enjoyed the view ...

 

Another common scenery...

Elections in the making...dirty, violent and unfair, what a surprise.

The Harley dreamer?

Sweet apparition in the bush.

Butiaba and flooding, lake Albert, Uganda

 

Olivia and I left Murchison Falls, also locally called Kabarega falls, through a western gate, spent a night in a non descript place, Buliisa, after trying to spot the Nile delta where the Victoria Nile flows in lake Albert but Wanseko was flooded. And the next day we drove to Butiaba,also on the shore of lake Albert. Not much there except for the old timers, "The African Queen" was partly shot here. And a ferry that, like in Murchison and Wanseko, was discontinued. No surprise and a bit irrelevant fact to us as we didn't plan to travel to Congo on the other side of the lake. And also on lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, for the big military boat scenes.

Oh and Hemingway was injured in a  2nd airplane crash here after being rescued from the first one in Murchison falls...

Here is a view of the lake from the escarpment...

 

 

Indeed the Nile went high up in this area too...

 

The irony considering some signs are about water projects...

 

The African art of packing but in this case we didn't smile. This car was the only example of some food
delivery we saw in the short time we stayed there. There are hardly no shop open and apparently not much help from agencies...

But a massive highway is under construction, apparently useless for now...

 

I often get reactions, positive and negative, from people when I shoot them. Here, nothing...people must have other things on their minds like relocating, salvaging what can be salvaged, feeding...

 

Whatever museum or good restaurant that might have been available in Butiaba quickly looked a wasted wish to us...

One of the sad view of the day...

 

Life goes on for the fishing people...

 

This is the end of the road ending short of the submerged harbor.

The recent higher water level is clearly visible on the wall.

 

Kampala, street photography

 

I feel sorry for these sellers...the job to pack and unpack everyday, carry the whole burden across Kampala unpractical streets...

 

 

 

Corona is officially there but the measures are half hearted in many cases. Here above is one good citizen though.

 

Women tend to be more friendly than women when I practice street photography. Smile, waving hand, even a blow kiss...but men? That is another league. Some will be friendly too (no blow kiss though) but others will be plain rude, I don't blame them, and yell the same obscenity, that is "Eat your mother's ass"! Similar to the French "Nique ta mère"...(fuck your mother)

I know I have been a "fashionisto" but I think I can spot a fashion crime here, no?