It's time to indulge our prejudices about Africans again!

[Solly Mack]

26. But if you read about Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya you'll find that both bodies of water

have a crocodile problem. Lake Abaya is where the baptisms took place.

There is a narrow strip of a nature preserve between the two bodies of water. The preserve is larger in some places but fairly narrow between the lakes.

If the fishing is good, fishermen would take the risk. Locals would also know the risk. Better than I would, of course - but that doesn't mean it wasn't risky.

Being safe is a relative thing when it comes to the degrees of danger.

I walk near gators all the time. ALL the time.

Snakes, too. Big, fat poisonous ones.

What I don't do is get too close.

Is the photograph worth the danger? Most times, yes. But only after making that determination. I judge distance and location.

What I don't do is go into gator infested waters.

Or snake infested waters.

Oh, I'll drive through nature preserves where there are many gators (and snakes) - but I don't get out of my car. Not even for the perfect shot.

I do photography, btw.

I will lean out my window if I judge it to be safe.

But if I am ever leaning out my window while on the trail and get bit?

You have my permission to tell me how fucking stupid I am.

Because I'll already being thinking it about myself.

Never said their baptism was hubris - same can't be said for the location however.

And as to what the majority of the world thinks - that in no way enters into my thinking.

Facts aren't facts by majority rule.