We left early for the Massai Mara and here we are at the Mara River with MANY hippos who are snoozing, grunting and swimming. Two crocodiles were sunning in the same spot. We wallowed in brilliantly colored birdlife, chased a cheetah through the high grasses and stumbled upon this sleepy hyena who could not have cared less about us.
We stopped for lunch right on the hills of the Mara where I took this photo of my favorite guide who is a MASTER birder so we have seen all sorts of exotic birds, as well as the big animals. I asked him if he would like to have my half marathon shirt, and he said he would, so I am having it washed and will pass it on which is really what T shirts are for!!
We crossed over into Tanzania and saw this magical lizard at the entrance to one of their parks; I forget its name, but on the way there we saw a mother lion carrying what looked to me like a dead baby; however, I was told that the cub was newly born and the mother was tranferring all her cubs to a safe location so predators, including the male lions, wouldn't get them.
I tried to load a photograph of a secretary bird with its wild spiky feathers poking up out of the top of its head, but alas, I cannot find it. You get instead a mama elephant and her baby.
Tomorrow we travel to Massai village, pick up Grace and have her spend the day with us/ I am nervous as a blind date!!
Nice!
ReplyDelete