The Andersons, Barnes and Chadwicks, or the ABC's, were our first visitors from Western Australia. They found out about us from friends in South Africa / England, the Martins, who had come on a safari a few years before. For us this was a fun trip, as these people were farmers of one sort or another (more the other) and understood land, nature and wilderness, but from a totally different world. This was a cross country, driving safari that started in Samburu, then crossed over the Aberdare Mountains to Lake Nakuru, and finished in the Masai Mara.

A young female leopard in an acacia tree in Samburu	Watching a breeding heard of elephants bathing in the Ewaso Nyiro river in Samburu

Male impala in Samburu	Samburu sunset

The rare and beautiful Vulturine guineafowl, found only in the North of Kenya	And an even rarer sight, a striped hyena, also in Samburu

An orange-bellied parrot feeding upside down on a "Sausage" from the Sausage tree, Kigalia Africana" - Samburu	A young male gerenuk, yet another species only found in the horn of Africa, and therefore found in few other places than Samburu

The diminutive Kirk's dikdik, weighing in at only 5 kg	Lee Chadwick with an old Samburu lady in her village

Samburu warrior outside his village or "manyatta"	A surprise Samburu visitation during sundowners!

A genet that chose to have dinner with us in Samburu	A young female bushbuck joining us for our picnic in the Aberdare Mountains

On the shores of Lake Nakuru, with a white rhino.	An old male leopard with a zebra carcass, close to our mobile camp in Lake Nakuru Park

Bull Rothschild's giraffe in Lake Nakuru Park	This bull cape buffalo is caked in mud after a wallow in a nearby waterhole - Lake Nakuru National Park

Caroline joined us in Nakuru..	...and Tim was very happy!

The ABC's around the Campfire in Nakuru...	and with the mobile camp staff.

White rhino enjoying the company of a bachelor group of cape buffalo in Lake Nakuru Park	This spotted hyena suckling two pups/cubs in the Masai Mara. Pups stay on milk for a considerable time, as their mothers often travel far for food.

Lioness in cover in the Masai Mara	Sopia and the ABC's watching and being watched by a "journey" of giraffes in the Masai Mara.

The ABC's with Sopia in the Masai Mara	A pod of restless hippos in the Mara River

A Nubian vulture flying in to a carcass already attended by a flock of white backed and Rupells Griffon vultures	David emerging from a visit in Sopia's house!