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photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — Late in the afternoons they’d take us up near the border, where the water was freshest and the reeds formed a great green labyrinth. There were always two or three long-limbed boys, teasing and arguing in the stern of a rough old boat. The boldest of them steered, giving orders, and the others cheerfully ignored him. When I asked his name he told me to call him after an African footballer whose haircut he’d also borrowed, a wide mohawk bleached by dye and sun to the orange of a mushed pumpkin. He ferried us through the long emerald lanes as we searched for fishermen and watched for pirates who hunted there. We never saw the pirates, with their AKs and machetes, though you’d find the fishermen poling the maze in dugout canoes and singing like Venetians, or chest-deep checking nets, or lounging at the floating camps they often hacked from the reed-beds. I liked those men, liked their delta world that wasn’t land, or water, or sky but something made of each—quivering and thick with frogs and snakes, dragonflies and cumulus-colored egrets. Usually there’d be a fire. Over it would roast silver fish and moss-backed turtles, their freshly-snapped necks lying limp against the shells. Approaching a camp, the boys would laugh and shout a greeting, then hurl themselves overboard. Down below, they’d feel along the nets, eyes closed, fingers crawling, and surface a minute later clutching a fish. Each gleaming prize was carried over to the camp and handed up to the cook. Even the oldest fishermen never scolded for such taking. They knew what it meant to be a boy born on water, ever moving, always hungry, keeping cold at bay by the mouthful.
These Instagram pieces are part of our ongoing project, #NGwatershedstories, and they’re linked to our feature article on Kenya’s Lake Turkana in the August issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. Join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert.

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