Horse riding training centre as we leave the camp around 7:15 this morning.

Nakuru zebra… the common zebra has wider stripes that go through from one side to other side under the belly.

We see quite a number of yellow fever trees. The trunks are “yellow” and people in the past believed that they were the cause of fever. The actual scoop is that they grow in swampy areas where mosquitos breed.

Grants Gazelle

Warthogs

Thomson gazelle

Impala

A lion pride of 2 brothers, one female, 2 cubs plus 2 females coming down from higher up… pretty exciting

Defassa waterbucks

Two adult and 1 baby wide mouth rhinos

African water buffalos

Nakuru Giraffe

Blacksmith plover

Yellow-billed stork(has red at top of yellow beak)

Spoonbills

Maribu stork

Lesser (more pink)and greater(less pigment) flamingos -the pelicans used to be more pink a few years ago but because of the amount of rainfall has been so great, making it more alkaline. It has diluted the water. It not only has affected the colour of flamingos, it has also caused the trees to die.

Egyptian goose

Sacred ibis

Stork swimming by

Baboons

Grebe crane

Cormorants

Hamerkop … likes big home/nest

Fish eagle

Common eland…. Biggest of antelopes

Warthogs (pumbas)

Black and white colobus monkeys in tree

Colobus monkeys

Bushell starling

Lilac-crested roller…. Beautiful

Male lion killed a pumba feeding in the grass

I must say that the temperature here was much more comfortable. There is at least 5 C difference between here and Samburu. After arriving back from the safari drive the skies opened up. Got a really good downpour.

Earlier in the day with the help from one of the other people on the tour, we had wifi so we were able to get out messages that we were all safe. We were not able to post anything since Nairobi.