After leaving Nakuru we headed north towards the Equator and a park called Samburu.The dust was crazy going up there and we passed through lots of small villages and towns.Anytime we stopped crowds of people or kids would crowd the van trying to sell us stuff or trying to get food or candy.The last 30 or 40 km into the park ,the road was some of the worst washboard I have ever experienced.It made some of out logging roads in B.C. seem like highways. We got into the park at sunset and saw a lone male elephant pretty much as we entered the park.Just after the sunset we saw a pair of lions stalk and kill a baby Gerebuck about 30 feet from the van.The light was pretty much gone but I managed to save a few shots of the ordeal below.Good old Joseph at Big Time really took care of us in Samburu, we got up close and personal with some big cats and were lucky enough to see a kill right in front of the van.I'll do the posts from this park in 3 or 4 posts so come back and check some of the highlights in a few days.
Tasty meal. This baby's mom and dad watched this whole thing go down just on the other side of the van.The lioness in the background chased it into some shrub, it thought it had her beat ,took off towards mom and dad and got picked off buy this big male pretty much right in front of us
Leopard, we stalked this poor guy for 30 minutes with about 10 other vans.He ended up walking right beside the van.This was at sundown on the second night at Samburu.I was shooting with low shutter speeds and wide aperature for this leopard but am happy with a few of these!
This lion was right beside the van on the way out.I'll tell you a story about him in the next post.
Tasty meal. This baby's mom and dad watched this whole thing go down just on the other side of the van.The lioness in the background chased it into some shrub, it thought it had her beat ,took off towards mom and dad and got picked off buy this big male pretty much right in front of us
Leopard, we stalked this poor guy for 30 minutes with about 10 other vans.He ended up walking right beside the van.This was at sundown on the second night at Samburu.I was shooting with low shutter speeds and wide aperature for this leopard but am happy with a few of these!
This lion was right beside the van on the way out.I'll tell you a story about him in the next post.
Time to get into day 3 of the trip, the second day of real photo shooting.We left Masai Mara around 9 a.m. and went on a beatiful drive through Kenyan Farm country to a lodge only 15 minutes from Lake Nakuru National Park.The roads were a bit better on this leg of trip, but still much more sketchu than anything we'd see in North America.We settled in at the lodge and got cleaned up ,then left for a game drive around 4:00 in the afternoon. Lake Nakuru is famous for it's Flamingos and Rhino.The weather wasn't great, mostly cloudy for the whole drive but we did have a few moments when it got a bit brighter.More shots from Nakuru will be posted over the next few days.
This 4th installment of Masai Mara will be the last for this park.These last 4 posts encompass my first evening and following day on safari. I still have another 15 days to get through, I'll try and get a little pickier with the photos so you don't get bored! I'm trying to include at least one photo of each animal I saw in each park.Oh ya, and I like the big cats so you will have to endure more big cat photos. This place was amazing, wish I could have spent the sunset on safari here but most of the parks close pretty early.I think we ate about 1 kg of dust today, I can't believe how dusty it is, I think I will have to throw out the new D200 after this trip.Masai Mara is dusty but it only gets worse.
Hippo trail from Mara River
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