One Man’s Special Interest Each of us has one or another special interest, and I’m often teased because I have three (and they are all reflected in the posts in this personal blog). The “most special” (?) is my fascination with opera. Anyone who knows me quickly learns that my love of opera (and of …
Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (13): The Elephant Orphanage
Flat Stanley had some wonderful times in Africa, but it seems the Giraffe Center (described last time) and the Elephant Orphanage made him the happiest. Yet describing the elephant orphanage is a real challenge because I become very emotional thinking about how the elephants were orphaned, and what wonderful work the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is doing …
A Kenya Sunday with Best Friends – Starting with the Elephant Orphanage
I had my first visit to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on my first week-end in Kenya, when Charles – my new driver – took me there on 15 November 2009. I wrote about the visit here, but I did not alas have a camera at the time. So for my final Sunday in Kenya – …
Masai Mara (14): Sunday Elephant
Charles and I planned our final game drive for Sunday morning, since the Sekenani Gate, where we had entered the Masai Mara Game Research and from which we would leave, was quite some distance from the Sopa Lodge and it wouldn’t make sense to circle back around. So we decided I would check out of …
Masai Mara (13): An Historic Sighting
While I had made it clear to Charles and to Tomas that I would dearly love to see more elephants, as many as we could fine, I was pretty comfortable with the idea that one doesn’t necessarily see what one expects (or wants) to see on a safari. So I was pretty satisfied with our …