Game Drives in Kenya

On our two game drives, we saw so many animals.   What was unbelievable was that we saw lions on four different times.   The first lions were resting on the savannah.    Then, when we left them and drove on, we saw two lionesses chasing a warthog.  Unfortunately, they were moving so fast and ran over a hill.  We lost them after seeing the initial chase.   We drove to another part of the game reserve and right beside the road were six lions including a young male lions.  This was a real treat.   We watched them “wrestle” and fight with each other.    Use a tree as a scratching post, roll around, and stretch.   Then, they decided to head off.   They walked right down the road.  They went to a car parked on the road and stopped and watched the people in the car and sized up the car.   Eventually, they walked off.    The next morning, we drove for about an hour and we went to a more remote part of the park.   There a big, male lion (just getting a main) walked across the plain.   We watched the gazelle follow him and run by him.   He seemed to be sizing up Zebras for a while—but, then he headed in another direction.    We watched and followed him for ten minutes.   At one point it seemed like he got irritated at us.  He stopped and took a few steps toward us and then turned and walked off.   It was getting about time to head back to Sweetwaters for breakfast, so, Duncan was hurrying to make it back.   As we came around a corner, out of the brush came a hugh, full main male lion.   Unfortunately, none of us were prepared for a picture.   He walked right across the road in front of us.   

We even saw a rhino charge at a car.  The car moved just before the rhino rammed it. 

Tom said, “All I want to see is Mt. Kenya.”   It had been covered in clouds for two days.   On Wednesday morning for sunrise, there was Mt. Kenya from end to end—not hardly a cloud in the sky.    We watched it all morning as we did our early morning game drive and when we returned to Sweetwaters.  

Our last picture at the game reserve was standing together on the equator.    This was another of many special moments.