Only a few more days left!
We left the Mara Serena Lodge, in the Mara Triangle, for our morning game drive with much anticipation of a possible river crossing with hundreds of animals. As the sun was coming up we were treated to a really great sunrise, since it seems that the morning are mostly cloudy this time of year.
Right outside the gate we saw approximately 25 baboons on the ground looking for food with the mothers carrying the babies either on there back or hanging on under their stomach. Hippos were in the river, doing what hippos do, which appears to be showing off by opening their mouths in a display of dominance.
Not long after that we saw our first Cheetah with cubs. There is nothing more cute than a Cheetah cubs face, except maybe a 59 Les Paul with a flame top, Ok just kidding. Now for the gruesome part, now you must remember this is nature it is not my fault, the 2 cheetah cubs were rolling around and chasing each other and just having a fun time when one of the cubs scared up a juvenile Thompson Gazelle and the chase was on. Now keep in mind this is how cubs learn to hunt. They ran around chasing this Gazelle for about 5 to 10 minutes just knocking it down then letting the "Tommy" back up so they could chase it some more. Finally the mother had had enough of the horsing around and killed the Gazelle so the cubs could eat. I will not, however, put any of those pictures on the blog.
That is all for now as i must get some sleep before another game drive in the morning.
Boy this photography is hard work!
Stay tuned
HATA SISI SEMA TEMA
(until we speak again)
1 comment:
Doug, Fantastic Journey! We can't wait to see more and hear more about the trip that I've always wanted to do! PS - Jimmy was awesome, wish you could have come with us to Vegas, but your trip tops even JB!...next year - Mike and Karen
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