Well the last week has been amazing and have seen and done so much - from camping in game parks (yes in a tent) to visting some of the poorest areas of the country and also some of the most beautiful. The drive home Wednesday night was nothing short of a nightmare - left Thika at 6.15 - arrived in home just beyond Nairobi at 9.15 - less than 100km - 3 hours. They are building a new road, no signs, little tracks and holes and humps everywhere, no lights - part of it dirt - with traffic just going everywhere - got gridlocked at one stage - had to get a motorbike and other people get out of cars to try to stop traffic from just continuing to jam into it trying to push through - never seen anything like it in my life! Very harrowing and Joy did a great job driving through it all - then driving around through Nairobi trying to find out way through and around - no signs anywhere but we made it without any scratches to the car - just very tired from a week of adventure. I will tell it most easily in pictures - enjoy. This is but a sample of what I saw - many other antelope and scenery.
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| 14 Falls - near Thika - charged us KS 300 (about $3) each plus $3 for the car to go into see these when it was almost dark and we were only going in for 5 minutes - then wanted to charge us for taking photos! Were beautiful but you could see the water was not clean - probably sewage from the local town |
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| Yes was on the equator - crossed it a few times |
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| The most beautiful bird in Kenya - can't see it too clearly but was lilac and the most beautiful colours - next thing to save for - a really good camera with a zoom lense, before I come back again! |
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| Gotta keep in good with the Boat driver when you are driving on the lake where there are crocodiles and hippos! |
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| Lady of leisure - ready to face the crocs and hippos |
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| Fisherman we bought some fish from - from his muscles you could sure see he paddled all day! mmm |
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| Really???? |
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A nice croc having a sunbake just beside our boat
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| The most amazing sight I saw - hippos grazing just in front of us at night - our tents were just through the fence and they came in there as well. |
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| Watching a fish eagle take a fish we threw out for it - magnificent - got a video too but too big to put on here! |
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| Goliath Crane - just awesome to see. I can't describe the beauty of the birds in this place - so many we saw when we were out on the lake - bright yellows, irridescent kingfishers, and sunbirds that have the brightest glowing black, purple, green and red on them. Shame my camera isn't big enough to take really good zoom shots! |
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| Water Buck - heaps of them around - they are just beautiful |
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| Look at those horns - they are not nice creatures! |
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| Was very close to us - Joy was a little nervous as they are quite dangerous but I just found a good photo opportunity |
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| Staring us down to tell us he was in charge! |
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| Relaxing by the camp site - watching to see where the baboons were and making sure they weren't going to get into the car or steal our food. Was a little travel weary, dusty and only brown water to wash in - hair felt the same before and after! |
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| Camp site - the tree line at the back was the creek and the lions were roaring just over the other side ALL night - must have killed something |
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| Oh the dust - cleaning some off the car before we started to get things out - reminded me so much of being at Bourke! |
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| A little bit of luxury one night - no electricity - heated the water outside for us - lanterns and a fire in the hearth - lucky we stayed here as it was freezing - right on top of the mountain - was just like the snowy mountains - just gorgeous |
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| Mother and baby right beside us - just goregous |
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| This is a wild one - who decided it liked chips! |
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| Flamingos - this was something else to see and the colours were magnificent |
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| Ostrich with flamingos in the background |
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| I just love the weavers nests - they are everywhere - flamingos in the background |
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| The most graceful and magnificant animal I have seen - and was very close as well |
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| Hornbill near its nest - a small hole in the tree only its beak fits into to feed the female |
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| Water soak with buffalo, antelope and lots of wart hogs |
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| Mt Kenya - the clouds lift by about 9.00 am and you can't see it after that most days |
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| This monkey decided it wanted breakfast with us - and it sat up the tree and proceded to show me its "man hood" - not sure why - was rather disgusting really - but being bright blue and red - couldn't miss it |
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| If you have to stop someone is there to sell you something - this is honey - we bought some - just hope it is pure and they haven't put anything in it! |
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