Lake Nabugabo



Lecture on the banks of Lake Nabugabo



Brandon, Steve, and Reb in chest waders- doing research at Lake Nabugabo

We arrived at Lake Nabugabo Holiday Centre (three hours ahead of schedule- of course) and we couldn’t believe our luck. The centre is basically a resort- we eat our meals right beside the lake, the grounds are gorgeous with beautiful old trees, and our lodgings look out over the lake. I’m sleeping in a single tent (some people got lucky and are staying in cabins or the lakehouse) but it’s impossible to complain in a place as beautiful as this. As long as I’m not in a single tent when we stay in lion country then I’m fine. The food here is probably the best yet- they brought in a chef from a hotel nearby to cook for us for our visit. The best thing that we’ve had so far is the fish- Nile perch and tilapia. Despite the fact that we learned all day about how both species are depressingly overfished (although ours was properly, legally fished) in the lake, it was undeniably delicious.

Our lectures are done under trees with the sound of the lake lapping up on the beach in our ears. We’ve done some research here as well: we have visited one of the local fisheries and asking local fishermen about the lake, collected data in another swamp (wearing chest-waders!!), and finally, my favourite, gone out onto the lake in a motorboat to help a McGill grad student with her research tracking Nile perch. It reminded me of Dalhousie lake J. We reluctantly leave tomorrow morning and head off for Seeta, a suburb of the capital, Kampala. I hope everyone is very well at home! Love you!