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Africa: The Migration (8) – The Crossing

September 21, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

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 …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - migration, Africa - Wildlife, Mara River, Wildebeest

Africa: The Migration (7) – Hippos

September 16, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Often referred to as “the most characteristic” of Africa’s water animals, the lumbering hippopotamus is truly a wonder to see. Because they tend to stay mostly submerged most of the time (thanks to having their ears, eyes, and nostrils high up on their head) and do their grazing at night, we kind of forget just …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Common Hippopotamus, Africa - Hippopotamus, Africa - Wildlife, Kenya - Masai Mara Game Reserve, Mara River

Llamas? In Kenya?

December 26, 2009 By Guy St. Clair

  The llamas at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. Perhaps a little far from home, don’t you think? But perhaps not as far from home as the llamas of Canberra.  

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Africa - Wildlife, llamas, Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy

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