Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Nairobi National Park 1978
ATTENTION WILDLIFE FANS
This is my last Africa blog update. I am now out of slides to scan from my past trips. So going forward, only new work will be added untill I get back there someday. In the meantime enjoy the last Africa Blog in Nairobi National Park.
This is my last Africa blog update. I am now out of slides to scan from my past trips. So going forward, only new work will be added untill I get back there someday. In the meantime enjoy the last Africa Blog in Nairobi National Park.
Nairobi National Park has been designated as a rhino sanctuary . Nairobi National Park is really the most favored place in the country to see rhino. Along the south-western boundary of the park, the scenery is magnificent; this is an area of steep valleys created by streams joining the Athi River. Hyraxes are plentiful on the rocks alongside the road and the sure-sighted may spot klipspringer or mountain reedbuck. On the boundary road there are splendid views over the Kitengela plains, the dispersal area for the park's ungulates. The park side of the river is an area favored by zebra.
Within the Nairobi National Park's 117 square kilometers, there are over 80 species of mammals and more bird species than can be found in the whole of the British Isles. During the rains, both the long and the short, wild flowers are in profusion and there are places where the plains are an unending wave of yellow daisies (Bidens Palustris), which seems not to be liked, as food, by any wildlife.
Within the Nairobi National Park's 117 square kilometers, there are over 80 species of mammals and more bird species than can be found in the whole of the British Isles. During the rains, both the long and the short, wild flowers are in profusion and there are places where the plains are an unending wave of yellow daisies (Bidens Palustris), which seems not to be liked, as food, by any wildlife.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Vol Game Lodge 1978
Elephants, Elephants and more Elephants plus a few wildebeest, zebras and gazelles and one bird........
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Ambosell Park 1978
Amboseli's case it is big skies and far horizons combined with swampy springs and dry and dusty earth trammelled by hundreds of animals.
Amboseli's dust is ancient volcanic ash, whose salt crystals shimmer on the surface of the parched lakebed during the dry season. This creates hazy mirages which make you question just what is real.
Surrounding Amboseli are ranch areas where the Maasai share the land with the wildlife. Wild animals tends to avoid the village areas as it there are far too many people and the grazing has already been eaten by the Maasai's all-important cattle.
Amboseli's dust is ancient volcanic ash, whose salt crystals shimmer on the surface of the parched lakebed during the dry season. This creates hazy mirages which make you question just what is real.
Surrounding Amboseli are ranch areas where the Maasai share the land with the wildlife. Wild animals tends to avoid the village areas as it there are far too many people and the grazing has already been eaten by the Maasai's all-important cattle.
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