One of the pleasure of the migration safari is the opportunity to see again some of the favorite animals, who now cohabit in the Masai Mara with the migrating animals (mostly wildebeests and zebras and some of the antelope family). As I’ve written, the numbers are amazing, but even as we observe the usual residents, …
Africa: The Migration (5) – The Naturalness of Death
In most of modern society, it’s relatively easy to look the other way and avoid references to death, especially in the animal kingdom. We don’t hear much about the demise of animals in the wild when we drive along a mountain highway like the Blue Ridge Parkway, or when we are travelling through one of …
Africa: The Migration (4) – The Wildebeests and the Zebras
The Best Four came on safari to see the Great Migration and we certainly were not disappointed. We’ll get to the numbers later, as we try to describe our adventures with finding the animals crossing the Mara River to continue their migration on up into the Kenya grasslands. For the present, let’s share some of …
Africa: The Migration (3) – Our Safari and Our First Elephants
The Best Four (Charles, Nerisa, Geoffrey, and Guy) took off for Masai Mara to see the migration, and we were hardly out of the campsite and into the game reserve before we were amazed at the numbers of wildebeests, zebras, and other migrating animals that had made their way to this magnificent grassland. We were immediately …
Africa: The Migration (2) – The Four Best Head Out
We’ve taken to calling ourselves “the four best,” since we like to think our our little group as The Four Best African Friends. Not sure it works, ’cause I have so many best friends in Africa that it is difficult for me to decide who are “the best.” But no question about it, these are the …
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