We set off for the Museum of man. It is at the digging of a site that is million is years old and has 3 or 4 types of humanoids at different layers odd earth. Based in the diet in the layer, they are able to determine all kinds of information.
On the way to our Lodge for the night, we saw giraffes. It was the first we had seen, which made us so excited, even though we know we will see plenty more before the trip is over. A first sitting is still always fun.
We also saw eland and grant's gazelles. We saw lots of Maasai cattle herds (meaning sheep, goats, and sometimes cows). They were being watched by young boys, I would guess 8-12 years old. Everytime they saw us, they ran towards us hoping we would stop.
We ran into the great migration. There were thousands of wildebeest as far as the eyes could see. Some zebras and Thompson's gazelle too. They were far away, and seemed to go to the horizon. As we drove we went and went over the previous horizon, there would be still more.
We are seeing lots of really young babies -more and younger than I remember seeing in July, the year was here. The driver said that is because they had just dropped them in the last 1-3 days. The nurse on board said she saw umbilical cords still on several. Near the end of the migration group, we saw more ostriches.
This wasn't even our safari ride. This was just the 2 hour drive to our new lodge.
An odd thing we saw along the way we're lots of trees knocked over. We found our why that was when an elephant just knocked a tree over 3 feet or so above the ground. This was after they spent several minutes trying to scratch an itch on several large trees.
We arrived at our new lodge. It is really cool, with animal right in our backyard. There are signs telling us to not go past a certain point, but the animals don't know how to read. We had some dik-diks by a bush just past the signs, and some zebra's on our side of the signs when we returned from late afternoon safari.
The afternoon safari started out boring; I didn't have high expectations. I should know better. Just like the crater was beyond expectations (and our leader, Alfredo, says better than last time), tonight ended well too. We saw a cheetah. He would lay down, get tired of us and leave. We'd follow and she'd lay down again, and the cycle would repeat. After a while, she walked on a knocked over tree, stretched a little for us, then ran off.
As we were leaving, we ran into a lion pair. They were just laying on the ground. They just ignored us. After a while, the male got up, had 30 second sex with the lioness, and then laid back down. Honestly, most of us were in shock. This gave a great end to the second day.
We also saw eland and grant's gazelles. We saw lots of Maasai cattle herds (meaning sheep, goats, and sometimes cows). They were being watched by young boys, I would guess 8-12 years old. Everytime they saw us, they ran towards us hoping we would stop.
This wasn't even our safari ride. This was just the 2 hour drive to our new lodge.
We arrived at our new lodge. It is really cool, with animal right in our backyard. There are signs telling us to not go past a certain point, but the animals don't know how to read. We had some dik-diks by a bush just past the signs, and some zebra's on our side of the signs when we returned from late afternoon safari.
The afternoon safari started out boring; I didn't have high expectations. I should know better. Just like the crater was beyond expectations (and our leader, Alfredo, says better than last time), tonight ended well too. We saw a cheetah. He would lay down, get tired of us and leave. We'd follow and she'd lay down again, and the cycle would repeat. After a while, she walked on a knocked over tree, stretched a little for us, then ran off.
As we were leaving, we ran into a lion pair. They were just laying on the ground. They just ignored us. After a while, the male got up, had 30 second sex with the lioness, and then laid back down. Honestly, most of us were in shock. This gave a great end to the second day.
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