OHMIGOSH! Back on safari with MICATO - Trip report - May 2007
Jun 27th, 2007, 06:30 AM
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Very nice photos from Samburu. The palm tree, too, is special -- its the world's only branching palm tree.
Nice shot of the superb starling -- I always thought they got to choose first when selecting names.
Nice shot of the superb starling -- I always thought they got to choose first when selecting names.
Jun 27th, 2007, 08:43 AM
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Yay, Lynda, thanks for more trip report and pics. The group ellie scratch at the sausage tree was hilarious and the nursing baby ellie made me say "awwwwwwwwwww." Oh, those moments in Africa we enjoy! I agree, just what is is about those soups that are soo delicious in camp, but not so much at home?? Deb
Jun 27th, 2007, 08:59 PM
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Thanks everyone on the comments - I appreciate it!
Michael, I saw the guineafowl, they were indeed very pretty - and for some reason, I didn't take a picture! Loved your reasoning on the name for the superb starling!
Sandi - I see it now, yes, the ears are more donkey like on the Grevy's.
Sherry, Deb and bat, glad to see you guys posting again, I haven't seen any posts lately from you guys - maybe I have just been reading the wrong posts?
maisie8 - sorry I don't think I responded yet on how I adopted Shimba and found the girls at the orphanage. For the girls I booked Kennedy from Waymark Safaris for the day before the Micato safari started. We did the same this year as I just had to go back to pet the cheetah girls! It can be done on your own - others on the board have done it, but Kennedy will make all the arrangements for you, and then you have him for the whole day, including a parental visit at 5:00 to Sheldricks.
For Shimba, I went on line to Daphne Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage sight, picked an elephant, and gave them my Mastercard. I liked Shimba because he sounded so full of spunk from his story - it made me cry, but darn it all - he survived! Here's the link:
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp
I'm back to writing now, will be posting it soon....
Michael, I saw the guineafowl, they were indeed very pretty - and for some reason, I didn't take a picture! Loved your reasoning on the name for the superb starling!
Sandi - I see it now, yes, the ears are more donkey like on the Grevy's.
Sherry, Deb and bat, glad to see you guys posting again, I haven't seen any posts lately from you guys - maybe I have just been reading the wrong posts?
maisie8 - sorry I don't think I responded yet on how I adopted Shimba and found the girls at the orphanage. For the girls I booked Kennedy from Waymark Safaris for the day before the Micato safari started. We did the same this year as I just had to go back to pet the cheetah girls! It can be done on your own - others on the board have done it, but Kennedy will make all the arrangements for you, and then you have him for the whole day, including a parental visit at 5:00 to Sheldricks.
For Shimba, I went on line to Daphne Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage sight, picked an elephant, and gave them my Mastercard. I liked Shimba because he sounded so full of spunk from his story - it made me cry, but darn it all - he survived! Here's the link:
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/fostering.asp
I'm back to writing now, will be posting it soon....
Jun 28th, 2007, 08:07 AM
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Well, now that is strange, the above message previewed and posted okay, but I still can't do it from a copy & paste - last night when I tried it was doing all of the weird contractions (putting the wrong symbols in for thing like "-" and "don't") so I didn't want to post it when it was doing that!
Maybe I will try from work when I get there.
Maybe I will try from work when I get there.
Jun 28th, 2007, 09:51 AM
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LyndaS, if you copy from MS Word to Notepad, and THEN to Fodors, you will get better results - when I've tried doing it directly from Word to Fodors, I've gotten all kinds of strange hieroglyphics. I'm really enjoying your report!
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Friday May 18th, 2007 Samburu (Larsen’sCamp) continued
Now, where was I in this day? Oh yes! I was just sitting down for an incredible lunch at Larsen’s Tented Camp on the lawn, with birds in the trees beside us, monkeys running and playing just down the path, and a Samburu warrior playing the flute (do they do that often, I wondered ?) just down by the river. It was heaven, and really and truly, we all could have sat there all afternoon, socializing, laughing and having a great time getting to know one another. I’d actually like to tell you a little about our little family, if you could just indulge me a bit.
Daniel – the head of our family – is one of the safari director’s from Micato. He is a wonderful, incredible, resourceful person who has the patience of a saint, and the knowledge of a ranger. And, a great sense of humour too! We got him by chance last year, and we got him by request this year. He can spot wildlife with the best of them, and knows SO much about the flora & fauna of East Africa, it is incredible. He lives in Nairobi, and sometimes his home village. When he is ‘on shift’ at Micato, even if they don’t have a group to take out, he tells us there is plenty of ‘office stuff’ to do in the down time, reports, logistics, meetings, knowledge sessions etc. But every chance he gets in their ‘down’ times, he takes his young family (two boys, aged 2 and 4 and his wife) back to their village, and they live there until it is time to come back to the city. I tell you, it broke my heart to leave him this year, as well as Kennedy – these two guys & their families have become a solid piece of our lives.
Tom and Julie, who have semi-retired to a small town in Ohio from Washington, DC & other assorted places in the US, are an incredible couple. We originally thought our age (mid 50’s) but since they just celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, we think they keep their age well! Tom has semi-retired from his own publishing company, but as most entrepreneurs know, you can never fully retire! They have an assortment of grown children and grandchildren; one of their sons is Tom’s business partner. They are both wonderful, lovable, kind, gentle people with a great sense of humour, and you can tell, they love and enjoy life, they were always laughing and having fun
Now, where was I in this day? Oh yes! I was just sitting down for an incredible lunch at Larsen’s Tented Camp on the lawn, with birds in the trees beside us, monkeys running and playing just down the path, and a Samburu warrior playing the flute (do they do that often, I wondered ?) just down by the river. It was heaven, and really and truly, we all could have sat there all afternoon, socializing, laughing and having a great time getting to know one another. I’d actually like to tell you a little about our little family, if you could just indulge me a bit.
Daniel – the head of our family – is one of the safari director’s from Micato. He is a wonderful, incredible, resourceful person who has the patience of a saint, and the knowledge of a ranger. And, a great sense of humour too! We got him by chance last year, and we got him by request this year. He can spot wildlife with the best of them, and knows SO much about the flora & fauna of East Africa, it is incredible. He lives in Nairobi, and sometimes his home village. When he is ‘on shift’ at Micato, even if they don’t have a group to take out, he tells us there is plenty of ‘office stuff’ to do in the down time, reports, logistics, meetings, knowledge sessions etc. But every chance he gets in their ‘down’ times, he takes his young family (two boys, aged 2 and 4 and his wife) back to their village, and they live there until it is time to come back to the city. I tell you, it broke my heart to leave him this year, as well as Kennedy – these two guys & their families have become a solid piece of our lives.
Tom and Julie, who have semi-retired to a small town in Ohio from Washington, DC & other assorted places in the US, are an incredible couple. We originally thought our age (mid 50’s) but since they just celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, we think they keep their age well! Tom has semi-retired from his own publishing company, but as most entrepreneurs know, you can never fully retire! They have an assortment of grown children and grandchildren; one of their sons is Tom’s business partner. They are both wonderful, lovable, kind, gentle people with a great sense of humour, and you can tell, they love and enjoy life, they were always laughing and having fun
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Clint and Gloria hail from Laguna Beach in California. Clint is a surfer, paramedic and fireman all rolled into one, and I tell you it makes for a great combination! He has an INCREDIBLE sense of humour, he kept all of laughing the entire time. If things were not going exactly as they were meant to be Clint would have us laughing in no flat. Gloria is a doctor who works in a large city hospital, and has the most wonderful smile that I have ever seen. She has one of those real ‘feel-good smiles’ that I just couldn’t get enough of seeing! Their stories were always wonderful, humorous and entertaining.
As for us, well I was the official photojournalist and family recorder, while Jim was the official camera techie and Inspector Gadget – so named by Clint for all of the neat gadgets he had in that camera bag of his. Both Tom and Clint had borrowed 35mm cameras from friends for the safari, and along with me never having actually taken any pictures on the FZ50 prior to safari – well, we were a pretty dependent threesome on Jim for camera savvy! Jim can take a camera, any camera, and pretty well tell you how to run it with just a little bit of experimenting – he sure came in handy! It only took Jim missing one game run (staying behind to relax in the tent…) for us to put our foot down and tell him he wasn’t allowed to miss any game runs again! (all three of us ran into camera problems without him!)
Anyhow, I digress – back to the lunch. What an incredible lunch it was – spicy avocado soup, a wonderful salad, turkey julienne with fresh veggies and apple crumble for desert. Larsen’s has a set menu for each meal, with an appetizer, soup, salad, a choice of three entrees (fish, vegetarian or meat dish) and a desert. The food here was incredible, I’d say the best of all the food that I had so far from this year and last.
After a quick 45-min power nap, most of us were off for the afternoon game drive at 4 pm. This was the one that Jim didn’t come on, he just wanted to relax in the tent for a bit and snooze some more. It was raining so we weren’t sure how much we would see, but I thought for sure if I didn’t go everyone would see a leopard! Getting there mind you, I slipped in the mud on the path and skinned my knee – it was so funny, Gloria said she was watching me come down the path, and then, all of a sudden there I was on the ground praying on my knees! She made me laugh (even though it hurt – a real true doctor!)…. Today I have purple skid marks on my knee, a fine souvenir from Larsen’s Camp I say!
So, the game run, yes, it was a good one, but no leopards. Nothing earth shattering, but we had fun, and the scenery was great. We stayed on the Samburu side this afternoon, mostly looking for leopard – in all the wrong places I guess! We did see a leopard tortoise though, does that count?
We arrived back at the camp at 6:30, freshened up and met for drinks in the lounge at 7:30, followed by supper, tonight it was steak, and it was very tasty. The desert was rhubarb pie, and for the rest of the trip, after each meal, Tom would ask ‘you don’t by any chance have any rhubarb pie do you?’ He loved that desert, and I will bet as we speak, Julie is making him a rhubarb pie for desert!
As for us, well I was the official photojournalist and family recorder, while Jim was the official camera techie and Inspector Gadget – so named by Clint for all of the neat gadgets he had in that camera bag of his. Both Tom and Clint had borrowed 35mm cameras from friends for the safari, and along with me never having actually taken any pictures on the FZ50 prior to safari – well, we were a pretty dependent threesome on Jim for camera savvy! Jim can take a camera, any camera, and pretty well tell you how to run it with just a little bit of experimenting – he sure came in handy! It only took Jim missing one game run (staying behind to relax in the tent…) for us to put our foot down and tell him he wasn’t allowed to miss any game runs again! (all three of us ran into camera problems without him!)
Anyhow, I digress – back to the lunch. What an incredible lunch it was – spicy avocado soup, a wonderful salad, turkey julienne with fresh veggies and apple crumble for desert. Larsen’s has a set menu for each meal, with an appetizer, soup, salad, a choice of three entrees (fish, vegetarian or meat dish) and a desert. The food here was incredible, I’d say the best of all the food that I had so far from this year and last.
After a quick 45-min power nap, most of us were off for the afternoon game drive at 4 pm. This was the one that Jim didn’t come on, he just wanted to relax in the tent for a bit and snooze some more. It was raining so we weren’t sure how much we would see, but I thought for sure if I didn’t go everyone would see a leopard! Getting there mind you, I slipped in the mud on the path and skinned my knee – it was so funny, Gloria said she was watching me come down the path, and then, all of a sudden there I was on the ground praying on my knees! She made me laugh (even though it hurt – a real true doctor!)…. Today I have purple skid marks on my knee, a fine souvenir from Larsen’s Camp I say!
So, the game run, yes, it was a good one, but no leopards. Nothing earth shattering, but we had fun, and the scenery was great. We stayed on the Samburu side this afternoon, mostly looking for leopard – in all the wrong places I guess! We did see a leopard tortoise though, does that count?
We arrived back at the camp at 6:30, freshened up and met for drinks in the lounge at 7:30, followed by supper, tonight it was steak, and it was very tasty. The desert was rhubarb pie, and for the rest of the trip, after each meal, Tom would ask ‘you don’t by any chance have any rhubarb pie do you?’ He loved that desert, and I will bet as we speak, Julie is making him a rhubarb pie for desert!
Jun 28th, 2007, 11:48 AM
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I tried to write in my journal after dinner, but fell asleep doing it ,wow those game runs sure tire you out!
Wildlife spotting list for today, Friday May 18th:
Olive baboon, Nile crocodile, dik dik, elephant, Grant's Gazelle, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe, impala, beisa oryx, warthog, Grevy's zebra, leopard tortoise
Birds spotted today:
helmeted guineafowl, vulturine guineafowl, red-billed hornbill, secretary bird, black Layards weaver, white headed buffalo weaver, yellow neck spurfowl, superb starling, bee eaters, white back vulture, great white egrit, African fish eagle, pale chanting goshawk, go away bird, Kori bustard, habdah ibis, spur wing plover, and a cuckoo!
Wildlife spotting list for today, Friday May 18th:
Olive baboon, Nile crocodile, dik dik, elephant, Grant's Gazelle, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe, impala, beisa oryx, warthog, Grevy's zebra, leopard tortoise
Birds spotted today:
helmeted guineafowl, vulturine guineafowl, red-billed hornbill, secretary bird, black Layards weaver, white headed buffalo weaver, yellow neck spurfowl, superb starling, bee eaters, white back vulture, great white egrit, African fish eagle, pale chanting goshawk, go away bird, Kori bustard, habdah ibis, spur wing plover, and a cuckoo!
Jul 5th, 2007, 06:24 PM
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Can anybody see the message on 7/05/07 in this thread? It was at the top today and it says last post was 7/05/07, but all I can see on the end is Julianewman's message from July 1???
Invisible writing I guess....
Sorry that I haven't posted anything this week - I have been getting ready for the GTG - spring cleaning! Busy, busy, busy! But I'll be back to this next week....
Invisible writing I guess....
Sorry that I haven't posted anything this week - I have been getting ready for the GTG - spring cleaning! Busy, busy, busy! But I'll be back to this next week....
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That’s great you had only four others and they were pleasant and compatible. I was also cringing at yellow safari vehicles, envisioning a Micato school bus. A cream color would be respectable.
If your camera guru was not present, that was a good game drive to have no leopards or other big sightings pop up. Hope you no longer have your Larsen’s souvenir bruises. Thanks for informing me of the Samburu 5.
Enjoying your report and can’t wait to read what’s next.
If your camera guru was not present, that was a good game drive to have no leopards or other big sightings pop up. Hope you no longer have your Larsen’s souvenir bruises. Thanks for informing me of the Samburu 5.
Enjoying your report and can’t wait to read what’s next.
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SATURDAY MAY 19, 2007 SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE – LARSEN’S CAMP
OF X-RATED LIONS AND LEOPARD EYES
Today’s photos can be seen at:
http://www.pbase.com/lyndas/samburu_may_19_2007
My natural alarm clock seems to be set very early these days as I jump out of bed at 5:15 – even before the wonderful coffee and cookies that were delivered at 5:30. This is unlike me at home where it takes Jim’s every effort & coffee bribes to coax me awake at 7, let alone 5 AM.
But, as today was going to be an early run at 6:30 am, this was a good thing anyways, as we were ready, set to go along with everyone else. We drove a short away from the camp, and there, right there, walking down the road was female lion!! This was Clint & Gloria’s, and Tom & Julie’s first lion sighting, and they were pretty excited – but I must say so was I ! There is just nothing like the sight of a lion first thing in the morning. We all quietly stood up though, and started taking multiple pictures of her strolling down the road. She walked by, glanced up at us, and then went into the grass right beside us and stood there. Daniel motioned for us to look behind – lo and behold there was what we thought was another female – but it was much stockier and heavier than the first. Daniel whispered it was a male, in Samburu they do not grow manes as it is much too hot! We watched him, and of course took tons of pictures too as he walked up beside our van. He looked at us, and then looked at the female on the other side. No contest, the female won. He wandered into the grass and stood beside her. Daniel again motioned for us to be very quiet; he said they would probably mate. We stood by holding our breath, and then heard the loudest ‘purrrr’ I have ever heard from any cat (and I’d like to remember who it was that told me that cheetahs are the only big cats that purr as that is obviously wrong!). At the same time she was purring, she rubbing back and forth on the male’s side – ah yes, I have actually seen my male cat do that to our male dog at home! (domestic animals, you know a little confused…) And sure enough she laid down, he mounted & grabbed her neck and, well, you know the rest….. A nooner, only sooner.
As others on the board who have seen this have reported, it was over in seconds. A few grunts later they both laid in the grass, looked around and at us us for a while, and then decided to snooze.
Well, trying to top that in the run was hard. We didn’t see any other cats, and the closest we came to that excitement was pulling a stuck ‘Town’ van out of the ruts he was stuck in. The sticker on the back clearly said ‘Town’ car, and that is probably where they should have been driving it! It was a very small mini van with two safari-goers in it who did not look impressed. Our other highlight was Daniel serving us coffee in the bush, that was wonderful. It seems that with the new Micato Land Cruisers came with a portable coffee container that holds lots of hot coffee, hot water, coffee mugs, cream and sugar. Cool!
Back at Larsen’s we had a great breakfast ( cold cereal & fruit is serve yourself, hot meals are order off a menu) and then showed last year’s DVD that Jim had made, to the group. (a ‘presentation’ that Jim did with ProShowGold – it turned out great! – thanks Tom for the recommend on Pro Show Gold) It looked as though everyone enjoyed it, especially Daniel who was so much a part of it!
After a short rest (well, OK, nap) it was time for lunch on the deck overlooking the river – that was SO cool! I really think I could stay there forever, it was so peaceful, and the lunch was incredible. Really good food at Larsen’s I must say! I had pork medallions with spaghetti, potatoes and vegetables.
The afternoon game drive (right after we finished lunch at 3:30) was very hot, and not many animals were out and about. A leopard had been reported nearby, and we searched and searched, but could not find. As the leopards themselves advertise – elusive. But the scenery was wonderful, and the sundowners in the van were great too. Daniel asked us to stay in the van for this as we were in leopard country, and he wanted to take no chances. We started heading back as the sun was starting to go down, when Nathan (our driver) got a report of a leopard sighting just a little ways off. Turning around we dashed off to the area, which wasn’t far from our camp and searched and searched. Slowly driving by the trees where he was reported, looking for a dangling tail. Dusk was settling in, and Daniel said we would have to go as we had to be back by dark. It was getting pretty close to dark, when I (yes, me!) spotted movement in a tree out my side – there he was!! A sleek silhouette coming down off the tree!!! Of course none of us had our camera’s ready, which was probably good as it would have flashed and scared him/her. We watched him/her jump ever so agile from the tree to the ground, and for a fleeting moment we saw him/her in the grass – looking at us. Gloria managed to get a picture from her point and shoot, a priceless picture of the leopard’s eyes in the grass! We just rolled with laughter that night at supper as viewed it, it was so funny, just the eyes showed!
Once we were back at the camp, we freshened up and met for cocktails, followed by a scrumptious dinner. Dinner tonight was steak, with a really good chocolate roll for dessert, An entry in my notebook says it all ‘What a fabulous group we are with!”.
Wildlife spotting list for today, Saturday May 19th:
mating lions, dik diks, olive baboon, impala, gerenuk, elephants, leopard silhouette & eyes
Birds spotted today:
Maribou stork, secretary bird, snake eagle
OF X-RATED LIONS AND LEOPARD EYES
Today’s photos can be seen at:
http://www.pbase.com/lyndas/samburu_may_19_2007
My natural alarm clock seems to be set very early these days as I jump out of bed at 5:15 – even before the wonderful coffee and cookies that were delivered at 5:30. This is unlike me at home where it takes Jim’s every effort & coffee bribes to coax me awake at 7, let alone 5 AM.
But, as today was going to be an early run at 6:30 am, this was a good thing anyways, as we were ready, set to go along with everyone else. We drove a short away from the camp, and there, right there, walking down the road was female lion!! This was Clint & Gloria’s, and Tom & Julie’s first lion sighting, and they were pretty excited – but I must say so was I ! There is just nothing like the sight of a lion first thing in the morning. We all quietly stood up though, and started taking multiple pictures of her strolling down the road. She walked by, glanced up at us, and then went into the grass right beside us and stood there. Daniel motioned for us to look behind – lo and behold there was what we thought was another female – but it was much stockier and heavier than the first. Daniel whispered it was a male, in Samburu they do not grow manes as it is much too hot! We watched him, and of course took tons of pictures too as he walked up beside our van. He looked at us, and then looked at the female on the other side. No contest, the female won. He wandered into the grass and stood beside her. Daniel again motioned for us to be very quiet; he said they would probably mate. We stood by holding our breath, and then heard the loudest ‘purrrr’ I have ever heard from any cat (and I’d like to remember who it was that told me that cheetahs are the only big cats that purr as that is obviously wrong!). At the same time she was purring, she rubbing back and forth on the male’s side – ah yes, I have actually seen my male cat do that to our male dog at home! (domestic animals, you know a little confused…) And sure enough she laid down, he mounted & grabbed her neck and, well, you know the rest….. A nooner, only sooner.
As others on the board who have seen this have reported, it was over in seconds. A few grunts later they both laid in the grass, looked around and at us us for a while, and then decided to snooze.
Well, trying to top that in the run was hard. We didn’t see any other cats, and the closest we came to that excitement was pulling a stuck ‘Town’ van out of the ruts he was stuck in. The sticker on the back clearly said ‘Town’ car, and that is probably where they should have been driving it! It was a very small mini van with two safari-goers in it who did not look impressed. Our other highlight was Daniel serving us coffee in the bush, that was wonderful. It seems that with the new Micato Land Cruisers came with a portable coffee container that holds lots of hot coffee, hot water, coffee mugs, cream and sugar. Cool!
Back at Larsen’s we had a great breakfast ( cold cereal & fruit is serve yourself, hot meals are order off a menu) and then showed last year’s DVD that Jim had made, to the group. (a ‘presentation’ that Jim did with ProShowGold – it turned out great! – thanks Tom for the recommend on Pro Show Gold) It looked as though everyone enjoyed it, especially Daniel who was so much a part of it!
After a short rest (well, OK, nap) it was time for lunch on the deck overlooking the river – that was SO cool! I really think I could stay there forever, it was so peaceful, and the lunch was incredible. Really good food at Larsen’s I must say! I had pork medallions with spaghetti, potatoes and vegetables.
The afternoon game drive (right after we finished lunch at 3:30) was very hot, and not many animals were out and about. A leopard had been reported nearby, and we searched and searched, but could not find. As the leopards themselves advertise – elusive. But the scenery was wonderful, and the sundowners in the van were great too. Daniel asked us to stay in the van for this as we were in leopard country, and he wanted to take no chances. We started heading back as the sun was starting to go down, when Nathan (our driver) got a report of a leopard sighting just a little ways off. Turning around we dashed off to the area, which wasn’t far from our camp and searched and searched. Slowly driving by the trees where he was reported, looking for a dangling tail. Dusk was settling in, and Daniel said we would have to go as we had to be back by dark. It was getting pretty close to dark, when I (yes, me!) spotted movement in a tree out my side – there he was!! A sleek silhouette coming down off the tree!!! Of course none of us had our camera’s ready, which was probably good as it would have flashed and scared him/her. We watched him/her jump ever so agile from the tree to the ground, and for a fleeting moment we saw him/her in the grass – looking at us. Gloria managed to get a picture from her point and shoot, a priceless picture of the leopard’s eyes in the grass! We just rolled with laughter that night at supper as viewed it, it was so funny, just the eyes showed!
Once we were back at the camp, we freshened up and met for cocktails, followed by a scrumptious dinner. Dinner tonight was steak, with a really good chocolate roll for dessert, An entry in my notebook says it all ‘What a fabulous group we are with!”.
Wildlife spotting list for today, Saturday May 19th:
mating lions, dik diks, olive baboon, impala, gerenuk, elephants, leopard silhouette & eyes
Birds spotted today:
Maribou stork, secretary bird, snake eagle
Jul 15th, 2007, 10:58 AM
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Lynda, I’m catching up with your report. I’ll never be popular in Kenya (my only goal in life) when there’re visitors like you! 
Very nice photos of Nairobi and Samburu.
BTW, I spotted a Micato bus on University Way.
Very nice photos of Nairobi and Samburu. BTW, I spotted a Micato bus on University Way.
Jul 15th, 2007, 01:42 PM
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Nyamera, I'm working on getting something for you, me and Jim to do in Kenya so we can move there. So far I have Jim going on safaris to show people how to use their brand new cameras they just bought for their safari, me staying back in Nairobi 
doing someone's books and you helping me, I promise I can teach you in no time flat.....
doing someone's books and you helping me, I promise I can teach you in no time flat.....
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Hey Lynda, loving your report! I laughed when you wrote about the yellow Micato Land Crusiers. Aren't those rear coolers the best? So glad to hear you spotted a leopard. I am of course going to have to go back to Africa to see one...
I will be working on my report again very soon!
I will be working on my report again very soon!
