Mission accomplished! While the whole point of the migration safari is to see the animals, there’s hardly any “piece” of the safari that is more exciting than to see the animals make the crossing. It’s not always a pretty picture, for early in the migration (probably up to within a few days of when we …
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 …