Monday, July 1, 2024
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Game drive began at 6:00, and we needed to find a rhinoceros
to have seen the Big Five, but we were not permitted to
get close and just had this distant rear-end view;
note the Euphorbia ingens/Candelabra Tree on the left |
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| ... female Panthera leo/Lion nursing her cubs (KSS) |
Video of lion nursing cubs
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| Crocuta crocuta/Spotted Hyena |
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| A long-distance view of Diceros bicornis/Black Rhinoceros |
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| Loxodonta africana/African Bush Elephants |
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| Elephants approaching Kent |
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| Well, hello! (KSS) |
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| Morisho, the assistant guide, greets an elephant |
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| Mother and calf continuing on their way |
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The ground was marshy from too much rain so
this vehicle got stuck in the mud |
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| We pulled this vehicle out of the mud |
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| Waterhole with Nymphaea/Water Lilies |
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| Coracias caudatus/Lilac-breasted Rollers |
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| Mara River |
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This Crocodylus niloticus/Nile Crocodile is
still waiting on the Great Migration |
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The herbivore Hippopotamus amphibius/Hippopotami
are not interested in the Great Migration |
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| A less submerged hippo (KSS) |
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| A section of the Mara River where river crossings do take place |
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| Papio anubis/Olive Baboon |
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Straddling the border between KE/Kenya
and TZ/Tanzania; we are allowed some
leeway before being considered illegal |
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The first of three vehicles was stuck in the mud and
was pulled out, while a better path was found for
the others to avoid getting mired themselves |
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Male Struthio camelus/Ostrich has black feathers
while the females have brown |
We would also see Egyptian geese, guineafowl, Swainson's spurfowl, crested francolin, Cape turtle doves, migrant corncrake, white-bellied bustard, bare-faced go away bird, white-crowned lapwings, long-crested eagle, magpie shrikes, grey-headed social weaver, African pipit, and rufous-naped lark.
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| Phoenix reclinata/Wild Date Palms |
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| Crossing a seasonal river |
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| Controlled burn moving away from us |
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Controlled burn coming toward us,
although they do not cross roads |
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| Today's lunch was fish 'n' chips |
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For the afternoon safari, Tamiko wields
a cow's tail fly swatter (KSS) |
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| Eroded river banks due to flooding |
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| Seeing thousands of wildebeest: this is the beginning of the Great Migration in this area |
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| Connochaetes taurinus/Blue Wildebeest |
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Ficus burkei/Strangler Fig Trees and kopje/outcrop of granite
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| More strangler figs and kopjes (KSS) |
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| Oreotragus oreotragus/Klipspringers |
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Is the mother klipspringer keeping
an eye out for a leopard? |
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| Balancing rock (KSS) |
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| Male Panthera leo/Lion |
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| Napping female lion with two sets of cubs |
We would also see a rock hyrax, jackals, cheetah, banded mongooses, zebras, impalas, reedbucks, Cape buffalos, giraffes, and warthogs.
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| Nasikia Dinner Menu |
Next: Nasikia Game Drives B.
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