Yellow Giraffe

Poll- Alice or Barbara?

I’ve decided to conduct a survey in Baby names section. I’ll survey and see which of top 50 names of 1920 are still popular right now. (Thanks for the idea Yellow Giraffe)

Since I cannot ask all the names at once, I choose two to compare, for more information and to see the previous winners check out my profile

alice is good…

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Garanimals Musical Yellow Giraffe – Birth & Up – SINGS “ABC” SONG -NEW & SO CUTE $21.99

CARTERS 10″ MUSICAL & MOVING Plush GIRAFFE Child Of Mine Baby Yellow $17.79

10″ TWIDDLE Giraffe*Baby Gund Plush Stuffed Animal Lovey Lovie Yellow & White EC $5.95

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Murchison Falls, Uganda’s Oasis of Wilderness

The giraffe looked down at me, his big brown eyes as calm as the savannah evening. Our eyes locked: me, wondering why he was so placid in a place where lions and leopards lurk. He, intrigued by this pale person with a short neck and only two legs.

“The giraffes are my favourite,” our guide said softly. Then he said to the peaceful giraffe, “Will you teach people to behave like you do?”

Murchison Falls National Park is a wild place where you can be eyeball-to-eyeball with a giraffe, arm’s-length from a lion and close enough to a crocodile to count his pointy teeth. At Murchison, safaris are personal affairs, not crowded competitions to see the next big game animal. The park has recovered from the devastating poaching suffered during Idi Amin’s reign.

Elephants now roam in large herds with no fear, their big ears flapping, not far from the occasional safari vehicle.

A female once mock-charged us to protect her baby; it was just a warning that it was her turf, not ours. Lions are said to number about 2005 and we have seen as many as 60 giraffes in one herd. It is the same with other game: graceful kob and oribi (species of antelope), hippos, leopards, bushbuck, hartebeest, waterbuck, mean-looking buffalo. The population of the park is alive and well.

Murchison Falls is a six-hour drive northwest of Kampala, though with the bumpy and dusty roads it can take up to eight hours. The drive takes you through Budungo Reserve, where olive baboons sit in the road, as if preparing you for Murchison, an oasis of wildness where the animals are up close and definitely in charge.

On the evening we bonded with the giraffe, the sun was setting behind a ridge, outlining Murchison’s signature palm trees and acacias. Elephants brought the seeds of the incongruous palms from Sudan and deposited them here, another ranger told us. Now solitary palms poke up from a sea of grass, yellow or green depending on the season, creating a strange and beautiful landscape.

The Nile River and the Falls

The park gets its name from the spot where the mighty River Nile is constricted and crashes down through a 23-foot wide gap on its journey northward to Egypt. We took the popular boat tour to the foot of Murchison Falls to see hundreds of hippos sneeze and harrumph in and out of the water, and dozens of crocodiles basking with their mouths agape. We drifted in close to see three baby crocodiles on their mama’s back.

Nearby was the spot where Ernest Hemingway’s small plane crashed in 1954 during the American author’s African safari. he, his wife and the pilot, who weren’t seriously injured, were picked up by a boat much like ours.

At times, the Nile is possibly too alive with creatures for comfort.

As we headed downriver, the boat engine stalled, and we drifted into the reeds. I was excited about being like Katharine Hepburn in the classic film “African Queen” (some scenes were filmed near Murchison), but the other passengers were less amused.

After we spent an hour watching for aggressive hippos and mosquitoes, the engine sputtered and we chugged on, unharmed except perhaps by the Ugandan sun.

On our safaris the rare shoebill, a prehistoric-looking stork more likely seen in Murchison than elsewhere, eluded us, as did the leopards – until our last trip.

Somehow that made sense in this place that belongs to wildlife, not to lines of safari vehicles. If a leopard wants to look us in the eye, like the giraffe, he will. If not, well, good for him.

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