FOUND - TARZAN'S BIRTHPLACE

Big birds in the top of the trees overlooking Lake Victoria

A nice hotel on the edge of Lake Victoria where we met the Jackson's for dinner after Zone Conference

Look over the top of the roof and there is Lake Victoria.  This is a beautiful setting and we had dinner on the veranda

We went to "Wild Waters" for our 40th anniversary.  Here are the actual trees that Tarzan spent his life swinging around.  (We think).

Unbelievably, no one we ran into was familiar with Tarzan.  But to our eyes, the evidence is indisputable that we've seen this place in the movies - that this must be where he lived.

It's not easy to get to, WILD WATERS is a little resort on an Island in the middle of the Nile River.  Some one has bought it and turned it into a very nice resort with beautiful cabins that look out to the Nile River.  There are several companies that offer River Rafting trips down the Nile.  

We took a little canoe out to get there.  The current is pretty strong, so it takes a lot  of strength to row

The resort is tucked away in Tarzan's hideaway

The hut with the Thatched roof  (on the shoreline) is actually one of the cabins in the Resort that turns out to be one of the most plush retreats we have ever seen.   A man from New Zealand bought the Island and has made it a beautiful get away place.  The price to stay there is very expensive, but it would be a great adventure.  We ate lunch at the restaurant

You can walk along the boardwalks to the various cabins, and admire the trees that the once famous Tarzan swung through

We are on the canoe going across to the center of the Nile to the little Island called Wild Water

Some one had planted Banana trees in the middle of the pineapple grove.

A view of the more calm part of the river

Coming closer to the hut.  Looks like Tarzan's hut, but it isn't.  These are beautifully decorated luxury cabins with monster showers and furniture.  One whole side of the room will open up to a deck over the River.  There are even big bathtubs you can sit in on the deck to bathe in the morning....(if you like sharing your bath with the bugs...)

This shot is taken from inside the restaurant looking out to the River.  It is beautiful scenery.

The owner of the Resort bought the actual boat used in the movie African Queen with Humphrey Bogart.  He says he will launch it in a few weeks.

With the Harris's at the restaurant overlooking the River and White Water

view from the table in restaurant.  There is kind of a little swimming pool in the forefront

So the Harris's say; "just sit on the Rock and we'll take your picture..."

So then a big wave comes and drenches us

At farewell dinner for the Barlows. They have worked hard in Humanitarian

Zone Training.  Which is different than Zone Conference, but it still means I have to cook for this group

These guys sit in a lot of meetings

This poor guard has to sit at the outside entrance of the restaurant where it is very cold for her.  I think it got down to 73 degrees F.  Good thing she had a parka

Visiting Mary.  These are her grandchildren in front eating lunch and there is Elder B in the back drinking her fresh fruit "Jamba Juice".  These boys are her grandchildren

I don't know why they have to eat on the porch with their hands.  Maybe so it is more convenient to pat the dog, chicken or cat while you eat.  They are eating the staple menu of Posche and beans.  (Posche is either a corn meal or Cassava meal mixed with hot water till it looks like mashed potatoes, but maybe a little more startchy.)

Mary Shows her ingredients for her Jamba Juice.  She is in our Self-Emplyment class and is wanting to start her business

I don't know what the big prickly fruit is but it looks like a pear when you cut it open

Posche and beans, and you eat with your hands

The members wash the floor of the chapel every week using something like Ajax.  It is a challenge to keep the red dirt off the floor

It is so great to attend the weddings.  Usually they are for couples that have been together for many years and sometimes they have a family already.  But these two wanted to get baptized so the wedding culminated with them feeding cake to each other which they learned from some missionary here.  They don't have these customs.