Today began at 6:30 again with our game drive. It was a beautiful morning to be out on the savanna! The sun came up just as we got started and the sky was so clear!
There has seemed to be a different theme & tone to each of the game drives, based on the animals that we find & the traffic/road conditions we experience during our 2+ hours on the savanna. This morning there were very few other people we encountered, which made for very pleasant driving. Today, the theme seemed to be hippos & ostriches. It seemed wherever we drove, there they were – and the hippos were out in the grasses, not totally submerged in the water! We even had a hippo run alongside of the car for a short while!!
We also saw several animals we’d seen before, including a pair of lion brothers, and we also saw baboons which we hadn’t seen before! Here are some views of my last hours in Masai Mara.
We had only a short distance to drive to the airstrip from the lodge. I was comforted to see that the airstrip was dry today – no mud to deal with during take-off 😊
Once I landed in Nairobi, my focus shifted to preparations for our journey to Moheto tomorrow to begin our training mission. Pastor Ken from the Moheto UMC came into Nairobi this afternoon to join us. David & I enjoyed meeting him & having dinner together with him tonight. Pastor Ken & I are both staying at the Methodist Guest House in Nairobi tonight. Tomorrow morning David will join us again and we all will head off toward Moheto at 7am. Steve will leave Julia’s River Camp in the Masai Mara tomorrow morning and meet up with us in the town of Narok along the way.
I’m excited to begin this next part of my Kenyan experience as our team spends the next 9 days in Moheto in the western part of Kenya and gets to know the people in Pastor Ken’s church!!
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This is wonderful Barb. Thank you so much for the gift of this blog.
Those three baboons are perfect for a “See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil” poster. 🙂
Looking forward to the next amazing part of the experience. prayers. hugs. travelling mercies.
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You are giving your readers a beautiful vicarious adventure, Barb! We’re glad you’re having such an amazing experience!
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you had such amazing animal sightings. Were you just using your cell phone camera or took a real camera? That pic with the elephant and the tree is beautiful, but is there something stalking it in the grass? (i feel like i see a crouching lion). i’m totally amazed by all that you saw, it’s like you’re IN a zoo!!! We will most definitely hope to be so lucky when we are able to go there ourselves one day!
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All the photos that I post are with my i- phone, since I have no way to get photos off of my camera until I get home to my computer. Yes, there is a hyena crossing between us & the elephant that we all noticed after I recorded the photos. I totally forgot it was there. Thanks for the reminder 🙂
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What an amazing experience you are having! I’m enjoying all your photos and descriptions.
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Thinking of you as you travel to Moheto. The love you receive from the people there and the love you give will change your lives forever. God bless you on this journey.
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