Kenya
I think this is my third time
to Kenya (maybe 4th) and I was hoping to see the Great Wildebeest
Migration.
A long day to get from Fort
St. John to the Maasia Mara consisted of a 6 hour drive, 1 hour flight, 3 hour
layover, 4 hour flight, a few hours’
sleep and then a 6 hour drive.
Tourism is way down because of
security issue but the airport was chaotic as ever. After getting a visa there
was a real ruckus at the airport and it was really fecking loud. But it was
harmless, I think their national volleyball team won a tournament and they were
celebrating with traditional drumming and dancing.
Ironically, I was at the
Westgate Plaza when I was reading it was almost two years since those Al Shabab
fuckers attacked the place.
After a few hours’ sleep it
was a 6 hour drive to the Mara Maasi. As
you enter the park you see some wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, giraffes and of
course topless mermaids.
The next day it was a typical game
drive. You drive across the savannah and see what you can see. It is mostly
grazers and you hope to see the big cats or a rhino. Lots of Thompsons Gazelles, zebras, wildebeests,
giraffes, elephants, goony ostriches and other boring ass mammals.
The best of the first day was
seeing lions mate. The male had a package
on him that would make Steve French envious. Lions mate several times per hour and it goes on for days. If
there are other males in the pride the female will spread the love around to
guarantee protection from all the other males. If it just a male and female there are scented
candles, massage oils and Barry White playing on the back ground.
Day 2
Was more of the same as
day one but I was hoping with the massive wildebeest migration that I would see
a river crossing. There are something like 2 million wildebeests and 200,000
zebras on this migration (or this is what I counted) but it was late this year
so of course I did not see any crossings. I did see lots of hippos (these
feckers kill more humans then all the other animals combined but I am bit of a
Hippo Whisperer so I was not worried) and I did see a big ass croc but the big
ass croc did not do much of anything).
Even though it is technically
winter it is still hot so we decided to go back to the camp (read modern lodge)
and come back in the evening. I was debating just waiting to go back in the
morning thinking that we are only going to see the aforementioned boring ass
mammals. I was a bit groggy from a fabulous nap (people please understand the
fabulous people nap fabulously) and out of nowhere a lone female lion takes
down a wildebeest. This was amazing. By
the time I shook off the fab grogginess it was too late to get it on film but I
did manage to get some good footage of it taking it to the trees to eat. The
lion was exhausted so I was pretty sure that could have wrestled the wildebeest
from it but what the feck would I do with a wildebeest. I could see the lion scrap
the carcass off with her tongue and dive in with the entrails going first. I
was surprised that there were no other lions around or other scavengers like
the hyenas. I hate those pricks. From their creepy yelps, eating their prey
alive to a fecked up anatomy. For some goofy reason the females have a fake
wiener that they give birth though. Next day there was only a few bones left
from the kill.
Next day was more of the same
but the highlight of this day was seeing a cheetah about a meter from me and
saw two cheetahs dive head first into their kill.
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| This was the next day after the kill |
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| Funky lamp |
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| This was really close |
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| Check out the funky colors |
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| Local Maasai kids |
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| Maasai Man |
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| No Mans Land |
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| Giraffes eat these things |
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| Across here is the Serengeti. Apparently the Tanzanians burn the Savannah to stop the wildebeest from crossing so that more tourist go there. |
This was a short game drive as
I have done a number of them before but this was by far the best.
Back to Nairobi and the a
flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
