The Paper March 15, 2012

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Volume 43- No. 11

March 15, 2012

by lyle e davis I guess Bill Williams lives the life most of us wish we could live. 1. He’s got a stunningly beautiful wife, Peggy. 2. They have three children together. 3. They have nine grandchildren. 4. He travels the world, taking pictures. 5. He shows travelogues at area libraries, civic and service clubs, and schools, telling people about his exciting life and travels and showing them colorful examples. He’s a retired high school teacher from Oceanside High School. Even while teaching school, when on summer vacation, he’d be heading for some exotic locations, camera in hand. He has continued that pattern right up till the present day. Most recently, he has returned from Uganda, in Africa. Uganda is a small African country located on the SE part of Africa, slightly smaller than Oregon. Its population is around 31 million, most of whom speak English. Swahili is the native language but since Uganda was a British colony from 1894 until 1962, they learned English. In a carryover from the British era, many of the farm fields are still comprised of tea fields. Though Bill visited in January, during the dry season, he says the best times to visit are between March and September. Located on the Equator, the rains come in February, subsiding in March; from March through September, Uganda The Paper - 760.747.7119

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Ugandan Children is at its greenest and clearest. The temperature stays around 80 and is not particularly humid. Neither mosquitoes or flies were much of a problem and they saw no snakes.

and Uganda on the west. “The population is very friendly,” said Williams. “They’ll smile and wave and they almost all speak English. They are very friendly, yet half of the population live on less than $1.25 per day.”

The southern portion of Uganda tends to get more rain; Bill was in the northern part, up near the Queen Elizabeth National Park and Bwinda. The Park is bordered by Ruanda on the east,

A pretty country, a friendly country. Winston Churchill called Uganda “the pearl of Africa.” 80% of the country is employed in agriculture.

“You’ll see plenty of animals in Uganda,” Williams said. “One of the reasons you see so many pictures of lions in trees over there is because they get up in the tree to avoid the red ants. The red ants over there are a lot more aggressive and vicious than ours are over here. Our guides told us if we got attacked by red ants the best action to take was strip off all our clothes as quickly as possible. We don’t know why, but the red ants will not climb trees. The lions learned that through years and

“Silverback Mountain Gorillas” Continued on Page 2


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