Samburu

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 usLeopard, 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.