SAFARI Photos!
Zebra and flamingos
We did arrive home last night after 29 hours of traveling, weary but glad to finally get and at the same time missing Kenya and our fellow travelers Mary, Karen and Lloydie.
Maasai Mara landscape
Giraffe with 2 ox peckers
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- Grant’s gazelles
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- Warthogs
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- Cape buffalo
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- Maasai Mara landscape
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- Acacia trees on Maasai Mara
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- Maasai Mara landscape
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- Majestic lion
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- Maasai Mara lanscape showing Red Kenyan soil
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- Maasai Mara sunset
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- Lionnesses
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- Cheetah right after a meal of gazelle
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- Zebra
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- Hyenas who are frequently found laying in the mud
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- Beautiful crested crane, one of many colorful birds we saw.
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- Baby baboon on its mothers back
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- Baby babboon on his mother’s back
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- Adult baboons grooming each other
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- Hitching a ride
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- Mother baboon watching her baby
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- Mother grooming it’s baby baby
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- Playing young babboons
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- Young babboons playing– pulling each other’s tails
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- Tiniest babboon
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- Babboon family
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- Cute baby elephant with its mother
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- Suckling Thompson’s gazelle
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- Jackel
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- Lion laying in the shade of a safari truck–let’s you see how close the animals can get!
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- Lion about to take a nap
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- Pretty silhouette of Acacia tree at Maasai Mara
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- Water buck
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- Young baboon eating
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- Acaciaa’s in the afternoon sun at Lake Nukuru
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- Lake Nukuru with flamingos and a zebra on the beach
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- Zebra and flamingos
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- Playing young baboons
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- Mother holding a baby baboon
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- White rhinos at Lake Nukuru
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- Giraffes of different ages
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- Lone giraffe
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- Giraffe with 2 ox peckers
Back from safari….. tearful goodbyes soon
Beautiful lion at Maasai Mara
We are just back from safari and I have only a few moments to post before we go over to the Nyumbani Children’s Home to pay a final visit to the medical clinic, offer our final donations and say our goodbyes.
What I can say about the safari is that it was amazing!! We spent 2 days at Maasai Mara and one day at Lake Nakuru. Morning game drives began at 6:30 AM and evening game drives were at 3:30 until 6:30.
We saw so many different animals; we were entertained by the frolics of baboons, awed by the grace of gazelles, inspired by the majesty of lions, a little anxious in the presence of rhinos, and lost in a sea of zebras, cape buffalos, and much much more. At the top of a mountain we were in the middle of a huge herd of elephants and it was magical. Lake Nakuru was covered in beautiful pink flamingos. In many instances we saw baby versions of the animals that were adorable—even the warthogs. In the Maasai Mara even if we hadn’t seen any animals it would have been a photographer’s dream because the scenery was so beautiful!
Baby baboon
We also visited a Maasai village and were warmly greeted with dancing, singing and a tour. That will have to be a separate post as I have a lot to say about the Maasai.
I will post a whole gallery of photos that I can’t wait to share once I get home but I don’t have much time now and it takes so long to upload from here but I wanted to give a preview.
It will be very hard to say our goodbyes today. This has been an experience that has opened our eyes and hearts in so many ways that words cannot begin to describe. We have already begun to talk about our next trip and how knowing the “lay of the land” will allow us to do more useful service projects. I already have some ideas……..
But I’m off to the Children’s Home and will be happy to see the children’s smiling faces again. It will be an afternoon of tearful goodbyes before we board the airplane and I will leave a piece of my heart in Kenya.
Lynn Ouellette
Watoto Wote Wazuri 
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