Back to Africa; Chumbe Island & Kenya: Garonga Safari Camp, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning October 2 and 3, 2015.

Yesterday evening our focus was to see Lions. They had been found in the morning so we knew where to go. Before we got to the Lions we saw another type of elk-size deer. A Kudu female. It was a weird view of her. Her tail was directly pointed at us. Her face was also directly pointed at us. It looked like the front of his body and the base of her neck were mounted side-by-side on a wall.

Kudu Female

I will get a animal identification book when I can so I can put names to some of the ones I am missing. Of course we saw numerous giraffes, a half dozen or more zebras, and over fifty impala. What an amazing place!

When we got to the two male lions they were doing what lions do during the day - sleeping. In this case they were sleeping on the road. There were up to 4 vehicles within 50 feet of them at times while we were there. Each vehicle had 3 to 11 people in them. --And the lions slept anyway. The only time there was even any head motion was when vehicles were attempting to leave on the soft sand road that headed uphill about 20 feet from one of them. It required full throttle in 4-wheel drive to get up the hill. The vehicle ahead us us made an awful cloud of diesel smoke in addition to the sand it was throwing when it left. While we were leaving I tried to keep my video camera trained on the lions. As a result I think I got the only photo (extracted from the video) showing one of them with his head up.

Lion in the road

After we left they finally had the road to themselves. Peace at last.

Today we went to see the water buffalo. That was a long trip so we did not have much time to spend with the giraffes (about 20 of them along with a few zebra) that were grazing in a large area that had trees but minimal underbrush. And we did not have much time to spend with the zebras that had arrived at a pond for a drink a little further down the road.

Zebras at waterhole

We did find the water buffalo.

Cape Buffalo

And I haven't even mentioned the monkeys that play around our camp during the day and throughout the night. Maybe I will be able to get a photo of them to you, but I don't have one yet. And the photos below are other animals we saw at Garonga.