We leave for camp at 6:45. The skies are clear. I had the best sleep I’ve had since coming here. We slept in tents on the ground with just a foamy underneath us. We were told to bring sleeping bags but that was pointless. It was too hot to get into a sleeping bag. The “washrooms” are rustic to say the least. The doors are like the opening of tents. If the zipper is down all the way, it’s occupied. The showers are in the “toilet” room…. No temperature control. They are very pleasantly cool.

4 cheetah cubs and a mom. They chased after a dikdik and killed it. You could see blood on their mouth.

Reticulating giraffes galore

Grants gazelles

Female lions on the bank of the river…..later we saw 3 laying on the sand in the dry river. On the afternoon drive in the shade of a tree in the scorching heat, laid a male lion panting. You could see that he was blind in one eye. There was another not too far away but couldn’t see him very well.

Lots of elephants… some digging for water in the very dry riverbeds. The cattle egrets follow the elephants because when the elephant lifts it’s hoof, there are flies that fly away. That’s what the egrets are after.

Giraffes have no noise cuz “by the time it is expended from their chest to mouth, the sound would have disappeared”… lol!

Olive baboon… only in Samburu. Gerenuk …. Giraffe gazelle- stand up on hind legs

At one point there must have been 20 safari vehicles chasing an elusive leopard across the Savannah. One person had seen it jump down from a tree and then the search was on racing here there and everywhere. It was reminiscent of a sports game…..”he’s got the puck, down the ice he races, he shoots, ooooh….he misses”.

We asked about what the law was around gun ownership. Strictly controlled. No one is allowed to own just because.

We have wifi right at this moment but I’m having a lot of difficulty downloading pictures to this phone. I may send less at a time.