Roadtrip

We made a quick trip to Marromeu today, attending a baptism and meeting with the the elders and the branch president for a while.  They have weathered the the cyclone with not too much damage.  The trip was more grueling that usual with the 150k dirt road (following the 200 k paved) in awful shape after the storms.  We came home exhausted.  Herewith are some photos of the day.

A family swimming beside the road--it actually looked wonderful in that setting.

This is a typical community well--human powered  The yellow containers formerly contained vegetable oil.



Another community well.  Water is what everyone needs.



no shortage of baboons today.  We may have seen a hundred.  Some on the road and some in the trees as we ventured off in search of them.  Some of the baboons are actually huge--and we would be well advised to not chase them too much lest we catch one.  In their proximity today, we can confirm that they smell like monkeys and that their hygiene is unimpressive.

Who would think that the jungle would also contain tortoises?  There were mongooses too but they were too quick to catch with a camera.



As I mentioned there were nasty patches on the road today.  We picked up our first dent in our truck as we pulled off to let a big truck go by and had a log flip up and smash our door  So completely not our fault.



But as you can see, the storms have passed and the weather was spectacular.

I like to take pictures of random African women in their unique local attire, shopping in the market.