Nature About To Explode

Lake Victoria

The last set of pictures shot during the visit of my Austrian friends. This is time from the day trip to Lukuba Island on Lake Victoria, offshore Musoma. Click here. There are more pictures from Lukuba on my Facebook profile, in photo albums here (if you can't see, add me as friend).

Poles Around Lake Victoria

Last Thursday of the year 2011 Polish missionaries and volunteers working around the Lake Victoria gathered together in Kahangala, some 55 kilometers off Mwanza, on the highway Mwanza-Musoma, at Polish Resurrection Fathers mission, to celebrate Christmas in Polish home style...

The Purpose Of Life

Just came across a video on YouTube of lake flies called in Tanzania 'sami'. These nasty tiny creatures have only one purpose in life, I reckon - annoying people big time! They life span is just a few hours up to a couple of days, but what they cause while living is beyond imagination. Not even mosquito nets can prevent them coming inside the house...

Home, Sweet Home!

I'm back home in Kiabakari. Eventually, our plane departed at 3pm from Dar es Salaam and after uneventful flight which took some two hours (watching Mr. Bones movie all the way onboard), we landed safely at gravel airstrip called Musoma Airport, right in the middle of the Municipality. I always get stressed when approaching Musoma by air. There usually are quite strong crosswinds in evening, blowing from west, northwest, making for a bumpy descent. The runway is made of gravel, poorly maintained, so i always wonder how pilots keep plane straight, feeling how it shakes and wants to go sideways. It scares .... out of me, to be honest! This afternoon at least it was not so bad and - because I was busy taking pictures of Musoma and the Lake Victoria, I didn't pay to much attention to what was going on with the aircraft...