Masai Mara July 14,15,16 2002
Vultures
African elephant
Lion yawning as dusk approaches
Thompsons Gazelle
Wildebeests that have recently migrated into the park from Tanzania.
Vulture at sunrise
Sunrise in small valley
Lion on the second morning
Baboon. We had to keep the car moving to keep them from jumping in.
Grass, tree and sky
Black rhino
Female ostrich

Acacia tree

Fording a small stream. Earlier today a safari car got stuck right here.

Lion tracks

 

Lionness

Another Black Rhino.

Sopa Lodge

 

Caution sign at perimeter of lodge

Cactus

Masai hut

Our room

Lizard around the pool deck

Laura at the lodge

Laura waiting for our ride at the Sarit Center. We waited for 4 hrs.

 

A Giraffe Migration. There were nearly one hundred giraffe necks towering over the distant scrub.

 


A acacia tree occupied by two African black vultures

 

 

Three elephants. They are all brothers.

Four cheetahs survey some gazelle while a tour vehicle surveys the cheetahs.

 

 

Muddy water buffalo

 

Trees and tour bus

Sun and rain over Masai Mara

Migrating Zebras

 

Sunrise over Masai Mara

 

A Black Rhino. We got the chance to see two of these rare herbivores.

 

Thousands of animals migrating over the plains.

 

Closer view of the migrations

 

Lion at sunrise

 

Laura in the safari-car as we ford our way through the migration

 

Two gazelle fighting

 

Hyenas eating the bait set out at the hotel

 

Masia man and cattle

 

Black Rhino near a tour vehicle. These animals are perhaps the most potentially dangerous to Safari Tours.

Male lion slowly waking up at dusk

 

Peter, our driver, viewing the third sighting of the Black Rhino

 

 

 

Free Kenyan coffe back at the lodge

Me at the lodge