Just a few random elephant pictures for today, because elephants make me happy. I don’t think I need any other reason than that.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
2020-11-22: Elephants
2020-11-15: Francolins
Anyone that has been on a game drive in Africa will be familiar with francolins, spur fowl and grouse, as they are often encountered on the roads and have a funny habit of jogging in front of the vehicle for what seems like a rather long distance (given their size) before ducking into an opening in the grass or bushes. It always makes me chuckle every time I see this. Given where they are encountered though, and their natural behaviour, it is surprisingly tough to get a decent photo pf these birds, unless you are on a vehicle all to yourself… most people aren’t too keen to stop for every bird sighting while out in the bush.
2020-11-09: Monochrome Monday
Such a majestic creature!!! Words really can’t describe how it feels to be close to a big lion like this, or to have them walk by the vehicle so close you could reach out and touch their mane (but you don’t of course, because that would be amazingly foolish!)
Wishing everyone a fantastic week!
2020-11-08: Hosana
I spent part of my last game drive at Chitwa Chitwa with a gorgeous male leopard called Hosana. I don’t often have time to catch any of the virtual safari shows that are shown on Twitter or Facebook, but one of the times I did check in briefly, before my last trip, he was featured, so seeing him “in person” so to speak was quite cool. Kind of the same feeling I get when I watch a nature show filmed somewhere I’ve been, and I actually recognize a landmark; a little point of connection to a place far away, but close to my heart.
Getting three images edited today doesn’t seem like much, but it was more than I had anticipated I would be able to do, so I’ll take it.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week ahead.
2020-11-04: Wordless Wednesday
2020-11-01: Lazy Lions
I was just looking at my calendar and realizing it is only 6 weeks now until end of term. Then, I can spend a day lazing around around these lions. Until then, work / school / repeat.
Have a great week everyone!
2020-10-25: Elephants
I’ve come to the end of the photos I flagged from Kenya to revisit, and finish things off with a few of my very favourite animal.
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.
