Visiting the village River after 15years

Greetings everyone!

During the recently celebrated Easter, I traveled home for an event. After the event day, one of my cousins who traveled down from the city like me, suggested that we should take a stroll to the rivers because it's been long since we visited there. From what I know, it's been more than 15 years since we last visited the river. The river used to be the place where we caught all the fun when we were little, but as teenagers, we were cautioned and prevented from going there because the river was known to be harbored by goddesses. Oftentimes, these goddesses would swallow up humans as a way of appeasing themselves as gods of the water. Anyways, let me not go into details on that.

I went inside, changed clothes, and we set off to the river, which is very walkable because it's just at the back-end of our street.
On our way, we saw that the routes we used to take had been closed. We weren't surprised because it's been a long time since we visited, and the bushy roads have been developed with houses. The first one we went to has been beautified to a standard relaxation center by the owner of the land where the river is close to.

As you can see, they tried to expand the river, but they couldn't handle all the space, and grasses took over. Before, those open places that were filled with grasses were ones covered by thick bamboo forests through which the water flowed according to the current. Also, the ground is no longer as deep as it used to be; we could see the ground, which has sharp sand, and in some other parts, it still has some dark ground with dead grasses and other things that settled there. I made sure I took many captures of the place to serve as good memories because I don't know when I'm going to be there again.

After this, we went to the next river. Like I said earlier, the river has a line with its current flowing in one direction. It is River Ethiope, and its source is at the next community called Umuaja.

We got to the next river, the very biggest river we used to know back in our childhood days, but due to lack of usage and other things, the river has almost closed up. Oh yeah, the bamboo forests on the rivers had been bulldozed, but the grasses on top of it are just as when the bamboo were there.

This one, we met people, mostly guys, having their baths at the shoreline, which is not deep. This one is very deep, and the ground is not seen due to the dark silt on the ground, which is somewhat dangerous too because there are wild aquatic animals there such as snakes and others.

In this river, there are fishes inside which come to the shoreline to seek food when nobody is around, but immediately they notice anyone, they swim off to the dark side, making them uncatchable except by using a net.

Anyways, we, the indigenes of the land, are forbidden to eat fishes from the river because we are told that those fishes are children of the goddess. Lol😂

Thanks for reading.

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