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We've stopped at a sort of picnic area which has that precious item, a public toilet, and then we hang out for a while, because there's this lovely pool surrounded by reeds and overhung by an enormous fig(?) tree. Flying and walking around the pool are various water-loving birds such as sacred ibis and some kind of geese. In the pool, sometimes invisible and under the surface, sometime no more than eyes and nose, and sometimes half out of the water, are a dozen or more (probably more, they're very hard to keep track of) hippos. But wait -- there in the middle of the pool is standing a large gray heron. The water is deep enough for the hippos to submerge, so how can this heron be standing in what appears to be 3 inches of water? Then a hippo's head appears next to the heron, and it soon becomes apparent that the heron is standing on the hippo's back, hitching a ride to nowhere in particular.

[I think I need to grab a piece of one of