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| Cheetah yawning while resting after being pierced by a horn. |
We had a very, very busy day today. It started early with breakfast and then a 7 hour safari. Our first major sighting was of a dead wildebeest being eaten by vultures and other scavenger birds. The eye seems to have been a particular treat.
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| The scavengers follow after the predators are done. |
There were no baby elephants today, and only one lion sighting, but there were plenty of other animals to be seen. Giraffes were out in full force today and we all managed to see a group of 20 on a hill. Later in the day we saw another 9 or so. Since we were out for longer we made it to the river where crocodiles and hippos call home. The crocodiles weren't doing much, but it was still cool to see them down in the river. Further along were the absolutely massive hippos. We were amazed to see how large they were!
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| A hippo (rarely) on the move. |
In the middle of this several of us just looked at each other and had to marvel we were spending our summer in Kenya looking for wild animals. It was a rather unreal moment.
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| This is how to throw a party in the rain on safari. |
At dinner, Chris received the restaurant birthday surprise of his life I think. The entire restaurant went dark, the staff left their stations, and they all started singing as they went towards Chris with a full cake. After their Jambo song, they went into Happy Birthday. At this point we thought it was finished, when the Maasai men walked in with full traditional dress and did a ritual chant for him.
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| The cake after the first cut. |
-- Gabriela Gualano
