Jambo to you all out there!
After this trip I have only one more national park day trip from Nairobi. Any more NP visits will be overnighters as they are too far to do in one day. So, that's the only way to see Elephants in the wild, as they're are none within a day trip from Nairobi.
Grant's Gazelle
This trip yesterday to Lake Nakuru was fantastic. Lake Nakuru has no outlet, like most of the saline lakes of the Rift Valley. It is famous as the lake that can get covered in 'pink' with a million Lesser Flamingoes, with several thousand Greater Flamingoes thrown in for good measure. So when you've seen the pictures or TV programs of all those flamingoes flying around, it was most likely from Lake Nakuru. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, the birds have drastically reduced in #s, and the experts are guessing it has to do with several factors. Some are natural, like drought, but others are due to human influence, i.e. pesticide runoff, water taken from feed streams. However, the wildlife is still abundant. Here's some pictures to ogle over of a few of the animals of which I got close enough to get good shots.
Flamingoes
BIG White Rhino Male, from about 30 yards
Rhino family unit
African Fish Eagle
Male Impala
Marabou Storks
Male Defassa Waterbuck
Kwaheri,
Randy
No comments:
Post a Comment