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Caption: _______ MOUNTAIN GORILLAS Rob Masefield
Caption: About 9 years ago, I set about putting together the start of what has become a pretty lengthy and ambitious personal “bucket list”.
Somewhere near the top of that list was an item that read "Mountain Gorilla trekking".
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Caption: In August 2014, my fiancé and I travelled to the rain-soaked Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda in an attempt to tick off this once-in-a-lifetime "bucket list" item.
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Caption: Our efforts trekking in the rain, hacking our way through thick vines clinging to the side of a steep mountain, delivered us the 19-member "Kyaguriro Group" of gorillas.
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Caption: Nothing can prepare you for how fascinating, intimidating, exciting, terrifying and downright awesome spending time with these stunning creatures in their own habitat is.
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Caption: Our expectations were lofty and the experience we had with those big hairy lovable creatures up there in the mountains was nothing short of magic!
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