2020-10-14: Wordless Wednesday
10-12-2020: Monochrome Monday
Part of an enormous herd of elephants seen in the Maasai Mara. We basically just parked the vehicle in a clearing surrounded by fever trees and watched group after group meander by, grazing, finding great scratching post trees and visiting amongst other family groups.
Happiness amongst the elephants 🙂
2020-10-11: Kenya Images
The opportunity to travel is just one of the many things that I am grateful for. Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Carrying on from the past couple of weeks, so images from my time in Kenya back in 2016.
2020-10-04: River Crossing
Seeing wildebeest crossing the Mara River was one of the things I was most excited about about during my time in Kenya, but given how short my stay was, it was not something that was guaranteed. I did luck out though and see a small herd cross the river, and was it ever hectic when it finally happened.
It’s not at all like what you see on the nature shows, at least the day that I was there. There had to be 30 to 40 vehicles in the area and with some people, like us, there for close to five hours before the action started. It was a really fun atmosphere though and I spent the afternoon chatting with my guides, enjoying a lovely picnic lunch, and chatting with the people in the neighbouring vehicle. The river crossings this year would have been a much different scenario with all the travel restrictions; the animals just having to contend with the crocodiles, lions and hyenas without a bunch of spectators.
The poor little gazelle in the first image though…. it was picked off by a crocodile not long after I took this picture. The gazelles head into the river alone, to avoid being trampled by the larger wildebeest and zebra, but that makes them very easy targets.
2020-09-30: Wordless Wednesday
2020-09-28: Monochrome Monday
If this little face doesn’t make you smile, I don’t think we could be friends.
2020-09-27: Lions
I had several wonderful lion sightings during my time in Kenya, and decided that these big cats would be the focus of my images for today. While in Selenkay, the lion sightings were late in the day with fading late, so the images aren’t the greatest, but I have fantastic memories. Not long after the first few images were taken, the cubs were playing on a tree stump when the two males starting roaring; the sound was intense as they were very close to the vehicle, and the cubs stopped in their tracks, almost as if they were in awe of the sound they were hearing. For me, looking at these pictures takes me right back to the moment they were captured.
I hope you enjoy, and wishing you a wonderful week ahead.
2020-09-23: Wordless Wednesday
2020-09-21: Monochrome Monday
Elephants are such a wonderful subject for monochrome images. I know I have shared dozens before, but what’s three more?
Wishing you a wonderful week ahead.
2020-09-20: Selenkay Conservancy
For the last few weeks I have been revisiting my trip to East Africa in 2016. Today, I have some images from the Selenkay Conservancy and Amboseli National Park. The main reason I went to East Africa was to visit Uganda and trek to see gorillas, but since I was in the area, I added on five nights in Kenya. It was a place I had always wanted to travel to, and the add-on gave me a bit of a feel for the country; which I absolutely want to explore in greater detail in the future.
One thing I didn’t get to see in any real detail was Kilimanjaro. All of the amazing images from Amboseli of elephants with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background was not my experience, as it was quite hazy and I inly had a brief glimpse of the mountain. Hopefully next time!
I hope you enjoy my selection of images for the day. You can find some older posts from my trip here and here.
