Kenya

We arrived in Kenya August 9, 2004! Our first stop out of Nairobi was to the Mt. Kenya Safari Club. The Club was run by William Holden and now by Stephanie Powers.

More of the Mt. Kenya Safari Club. This stop was for relaxation, not viewing animals in the wild.

These are some kids at the equator.

Here we are at the equator where we stopped for photos and a demonstration of correolis effect. Yes, water DOES go down a drain in the other direction on each side of the equator.

Our next stop was Amboseli National Park where we stayed at the Amboseli Serena Lodge.

We spent two days in Amboseli National Park looking at the animals. What follows are some of the many animals we saw in this park.

Mara Giraffe

Zebras

Thompson Gazelle

Egyptian Geese

Elephants

A zebra mother with a baby

A herd of over 60 elephants

Elephants at play

Cape buffalo

Pat with a Masaai Warrior when on a hike. The masaai was the escort everyone through the bush (the animals are there and dangerous).

Bill TRYING to jump into the air like a masaai and not doing very well

Tanzania

Two Masaai women sitting beside the road waiting for a ride somewhere

Mt. Killimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa

Lake Manyara

By general consensus of our group, these were the most comfortable beds in the world. I have NEVER slept on a better bed anywhere including the one I sleep on at home.

A woman driving a ox cart

Clouds spilling into Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge on the ridge is where we stayed

these masaai women and little girl are doing their work of carrying wood. You do not find fat people outside the large cities in Kenya and Tanzania.

Hippos. Notice the one in the center of the photo on his back.

A lioness on the prowl

Lioness conference

Zebras and Wildebeasts grazing. These animals eat different parts of the same plants, so they can co-exist.

And co-exist they do in large numbers.

A female and male ostrich. The female is in the foreground.

Crowned Cranes

Mt. Killimanjaro

Mt. Killimanjaro

Mt. Killimanjaro

Back In Kenya

Children of workers on Lord Delamare's cattle ranch.

Rothschild Giraffes have white on the lower part of their legs. Mara giraffes have the spots all the way down. These are Rothschilds.

Rothschild Giraffes

A mother rhino and baby

The mother and baby rhino with Rothschild giraffes in the background

Cape buffalos (there are no water buffalos in Africa)

Cape buffalos

Pelicans

Maribu Storks -- these birds stand over 1 meter tall. Now you know why we say that storks bring babies!

Bill and Pat at the shore of Lake Nakuru. The white birds are Pelicans, the pink birds are flamingoes.

Mostly flamingoes with a few pelicans

Bill and Pat again

A rhino with a couple of tick birds on his back. The birds remove insects from the animals skin.

More rhinos just grazing

Lake Nakuru from about 200 meters above it. The pink along the shore is a large group of flamingoes.

We attended a Kikuiu Presbyterian Church one Sunday. I told about seeing so many stars and how God promised Abram that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars.

Not everyone who goes to church can donate money. One congregant gave two live chickens as his offering. Bill bid $10US for this chicken on the condition that if his bid was the winning bid, he did NOT have to keep the chicken. His was the winning bid!

The Kenya Airlines DASH-7 that took us to Masaai Mara. Our flight attendent was a Kamba woman by the name of Eunice.

The DASH-7 landed on a gravel strip in Masaai Mara. Our bags were unloaded and we were left there for our connecting flight. There were no buildings around and all the other people on the flight were taken to other lodges. We waited for about 15 minutes for our next flight.

This is the beginning of the takeoff roll for the DASH-7 that left us here.

We have been picked up and are on our way to our camp at Siana Springs. The trip took about 20 minutes and we were no more than 1500 feet above the ground during the flight.

Short final into a DIRT strip.

Our pilot and his first officer

Siana Springs Intrepids location marker. Notice the blanket and club on top of the marker. These belong to one of the Masaii that met the airplane.

Our aircraft. Sorry I don't know the airplane.

Bill and Pat at the marker

A cape buffalo carcass that has been partially consumed. This is the land of survival of the fittest.

A leopard in the lowest horizontal branch of the tree.

A vulture in the top of the tree

A male and two females. The second female is directly below the male. Follow a line from the one female to the lower right corner of the picture. Where they meet is the other female.