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Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 21st, 2018, 08:51 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Funny you ask, live42day, I'm not officially a...

Funny you ask, live42day, I'm not officially a Leo, although I'm July 21st, so on the cusp! I really love the lions and never thought that might be why!

Thank you for reading along, and for your...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 20th, 2018, 04:21 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Thank you CaliNurse. As you well know, all the...

Thank you CaliNurse. As you well know, all the excitement and action is addictive and while one part of me thinks I'm foolish for trying to top this, the other part of me is dying to try! There...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 09:32 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Back to Nairobi National Park and heading home ...

Back to Nairobi National Park and heading home

Not much really gets to me anymore, but leaving my last camp on safari always does. Even on my first one, as the tiny little plane lifted us off to...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 09:11 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

A sure fire way to know if there's a predator (or...

A sure fire way to know if there's a predator (or something else) interesting nearby is to follow the frozen stares of plains game (zebra, impala, wildebeest, gazelles, etc.) as they all gawk in one...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 09:06 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

A few more random shots... I tried to focus...

A few more random shots...

I tried to focus this time on a lot of other elements of safari, birds in particular. I don't know that I'll ever love them like I do the cats, but I'm trying. They are...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 09:03 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Maasai Mara skies Over time, I've become...

Maasai Mara skies

Over time, I've become obsessed with the skies in Africa, particularly Kenya and especially the Maasai Mara. I think because I grew up on the Atlantic, I have available to me...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 08:57 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Offbeat Cheetahs continued I think the...

Offbeat Cheetahs continued

I think the honeymooning couple felt bad that their delay caused us to miss that cheetah hunt, chase and kill, both for themselves as well as for me, David and Kappen. ...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 08:37 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Offbeat Mara -- last full day On my last...

Offbeat Mara -- last full day

On my last full day at Offbeat, we headed out with the objective of finding two cheetah brothers who'd left the conservancy for a while but were rumored by another...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 08:29 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Offbeat Mara On our first morning drive, we...

Offbeat Mara

On our first morning drive, we headed out specifically with the objective of finding Nalangu, the resident leopard who was presently in estrus and actively mating with an unknown...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 19th, 2018, 08:24 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Finishing up the safari with 4 days at Offbeat...

Finishing up the safari with 4 days at Offbeat Mara

I arrived at Offbeat and was welcomed like I'd just been there. It was only Feb of 2017 but it felt like yesterday. There were the obvious...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 18th, 2018, 05:42 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Yes, live42day it is disturbing. From what I...

Yes, live42day it is disturbing. From what I heard from folks I talked to there, the Chinese got the planning permission and moved very fast before any mobilization effort to oppose it could gain...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 15th, 2018, 11:43 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Sundowner, I actually think I found someone who...

Sundowner, I actually think I found someone who loves the cats more than I do, Ping! I felt like I'd met my safari soul mate. He reads those cats like no one I've ever seen! And yes, the...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:41 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

A word about Enaidura Camp -- I had to check to...

A word about Enaidura Camp -- I had to check to be sure, but I've stayed in 15 different camps and lodges in Eastern Africa now. In my opinion, Enaidura is by far the best of them. It's not just that...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:31 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

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Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:29 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Another leopard (from the threesome above)...

Another leopard (from the threesome above)...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:24 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

A few random shots from the Mara Reserve: ...

A few random shots from the Mara Reserve:

Baby elephant scratching an...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:17 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Enaidura Camp again Probably the best...

Enaidura Camp again

Probably the best sightings I had at Enaidura were leopard sightings. In the past, I'd considered myself fortunate to have seen one leopard. Usually you will only see one...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 09:01 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Enaidura Camp -- each of my days here was a...

Enaidura Camp -- each of my days here was a full-day experience. Up and out before dawn, heading back to camp around 6 p.m. when the Reserve closed. What I loved was that on each day, we were in...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 14th, 2018, 06:46 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

michele, ah ok then they'd already refurbished...

michele, ah ok then they'd already refurbished the common area pre-flood. It wasn't like that when I was there in Feb 2017 so I just assumed that had been part of the flood damage/renovations. ...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 13th, 2018, 05:37 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

You have that all right, Sundowner! Offbeat...

You have that all right, Sundowner!

Offbeat Mara is in Mara North Conservancy, which is adjacent to OMC, I think to the west!

Fasten your seatbelts for my time with Ping. It was epic! You...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 13th, 2018, 04:48 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Plambers, thank you for reading here too! I’ve...

Plambers, thank you for reading here too! I’ve cut the content down a bit so it’s not so wordy and more manageable here.

Michelle, I won’t keep you in suspense about Offbeat and the flood. It is...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 11th, 2018, 07:51 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

A word about the Emakoko I've said more than...

A word about the Emakoko

I've said more than a few times that if I have the choice, I want to be like the two elderly ladies in the show Fawlty Towers who live in the hotel and come down for...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 11th, 2018, 07:39 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

I should correct a statement above: until this...

I should correct a statement above: until this trip, I'd never seen lions in NNP. Of course I'd seen plenty elsewhere, but they eluded me on my last NNP stay.

Nairobi National Park -- Sheldricks...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 11th, 2018, 05:55 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Nairobi National Park, continued My second...

Nairobi National Park, continued

My second day on safari in NNP proved to be one of my best days ever. It started with the early morning black rhino encounter (previous post) which I found pretty...
Forum: Africa & the Middle East
Dec 11th, 2018, 05:38 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 9,023
Posted By amyb

Nairobi National Park What is most striking...

Nairobi National Park

What is most striking about the park is how prominent the landscape is. The city of Nairobi has always been the backdrop, but now the SGR (standard gauge railroad) which the...
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