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On The Road – way2blue – Massi Mara, Kenya in July 3 of 6

by WaterGirl|  May 3, 20225:00 am| 19 Comments

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Today is a repeat of last Friday, this time with all the photos that are supposed to be there on Friday :-) plus I have added in the 3 pictures that were missing from the first Kenya post.   We will finish out the week with posts #4-6 from this wonderful Kenya trip!

Tech note:  HEIC photos are not a file type allowed by the OTR form, which is why some of the images were missing.

way2blue

Continuation of our trek to see the wildebeest migration…

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The mother would move the 3 Simba cubs from day to day—hiding them whenever she went on walkabout.  July 16, 2021

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PUNDA MILIA

The Swahili word for zebra apparently means ‘striped donkey’.  The Masi burn the savanna to encourage fresh grass which the Plains zebra quite enjoy.  Zebra were my second favorite Kenyan mammal, after Dik Dik and before Wart Hogs…

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CHUI

On the way back to camp, someone had spotted a leopard which then became surrounded by jockeying vehicles.  But s/he obliged for a binocular/phone photo.

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TOPI

The nickname for this antelope is ‘blue jeans; yellow socks’.

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SIMBA

Another male lion.  This one saying ‘take your photo & leave me in peace’… 

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NYATI

Cape buffalo also move in herds, but are slow to react when approached by a vehicle.

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SWALAPALA?

A group of female impala (I assume) given the lack of horns…

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EAGLE?

Another bird for Albatrossity…  Another binocular/phone set-up, so resolution is poor.  Jonathan would look through his ‘Birds of East Africa’ guide, but my notes just say ‘eagle’.  So hopefully someone can provide the name—my guess is a ‘snake-eagle’.

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MAASI MARI

My ecologist son asked for photos of unusual trees…

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KenyaJuly 16, 2021

And here is what he was photographing—a litter of Simba cubs with their mom.

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July 16, 2021

The muddy roads caused some mishaps.  Here we stopped to help pull another vehicle out of a muddle…

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19Comments

  1. 1.

    Benw

    April 29, 2022 at 7:14 am

    Wow that leopard!

  2. 2.

    Betty

    April 29, 2022 at 7:39 am

    The tree photo is iconic. So Serengeti.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    April 29, 2022 at 7:59 am

    Quick note:  I checked the OTR form and there are 5 descriptions with no images, which means that even the descriptions for those images don’t show up.  If way2blue can get me the images ASAP, i can add them in, so maybe check back in later today to see the whole set of 8?

    Or I may just run this post again on another day.

  4. 4.

    Elma

    April 29, 2022 at 9:40 am

    When I went to Southern Africa, our Guide told us that the animals are accustomed to and ignored the vehicles.  They don’t perceive the crazy people in the vehicles as they would a person walking on two feet.  I don’t know if that is true; but the animals didn’t seem to be disturbed by all the trucks converging on them anytime one of the guides announced on the radio a sighting of something interesting.

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    April 29, 2022 at 11:27 am

    @Elma: Certainly true in Botswana & Zimbabwe. I have had leopards strolling w/in 2 m of the open sided jeep, & prides of lions & herds of elephants w/in 5 m. I was really nervous the 1st couple of encounters.

  6. 6.

    Ruckus ??

    April 29, 2022 at 12:30 pm

    Now that is a cat.

    Need a pretty big house if you are going to share living quarters with that one.

  7. 7.

    eclare

    April 29, 2022 at 12:31 pm

    What a leopard!  Congrats, it is rare to see those.  The only one we saw was in a tree.

  8. 8.

    way2blue

    April 29, 2022 at 2:13 pm

    @eclare: There was a guy at our camp who came for two weeks every year—apparently wanting to see cheetah mating.  But I was told we weren’t in cheetah habitat.  So don’t know what that was about…

  9. 9.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    April 29, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    When we were in Nagorogoro crater, the lions used the Toyota Land Cruisers as shade providers and lay down literally next to the trucks. The guides had a hard time making everyone keep all parts of their bodies inside the truck ( no dangling your hand down to get a better picture!)

    ETA: I am jealous of your leopard sighting!

  10. 10.

    Dan B

    April 29, 2022 at 2:37 pm

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Reminds me of our day trip from Dubli to Mount Stewart, a great home and immense garden near Belfast.  This was in the 80’s.  One our party took a picture of the sign at the border, No Photographs!.  It included the teenage guys with machine guns.  The mindset seems to be, This is like Disneyland crossed with first world oblivious on steroids.

    We survived.

  11. 11.

    Spanky

    May 3, 2022 at 6:48 am

    someone had spotted a leopard

    I thought they were marked that way naturally.

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    May 3, 2022 at 7:27 am

    @Spanky: 

    That one was all teed up and waiting for someone. :-)

  13. 13.

    zhena gogolia

    May 3, 2022 at 7:38 am

    Beautiful photographs. How beautiful the landscape is.

  14. 14.

    Albatrossity

    May 3, 2022 at 8:34 am

    Nice! Pretty sure that is a Black-chested Snake-Eagle (Circaetus pectoralis). They are widespread in TZ at least

  15. 15.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 3, 2022 at 8:50 am

    Normally I hate reruns but these are fantastic

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    May 3, 2022 at 9:11 am

    @Steve in the ATL: Only 3 of the 11 are re-runs the other 8 are new!

    I guess that makes all the difference.  :-)

  17. 17.

    Tenar Arha

    May 3, 2022 at 10:22 am

    Good shots of those lion cubs, still love that leopard, & the tree

  18. 18.

    way2blue

    May 3, 2022 at 11:54 am

    @Dan B: Oh.  I drove with my boyfriend from Ireland to Belfast in the late 1970s.  Of course, he being 6’4″, red hair & beard (Irish + Swedish heritage) got pulled out of our little car at the border.  Sandbags & young guys with impressive firearms…

  19. 19.

    way2blue

    May 3, 2022 at 11:54 am

    @Spanky: Ha!  Thanks for the morning laugh…

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