Finally! Wish granted! Hippos!!! Have you ever heard them grunting??? Their grunting sounds like a heavy desk being moved around! Har-har!
At first, we thought it was just rocks there in the water... Then we started noticing eyes and ears... =) Aren't they cute? Our guide said that you can find hippos only if the water is deep enough because they want their whole body submerged in the water to protect from the sun since they have very sensitive skin.
This one even yawned at us!!! What big teeth! Or should I say what big two bottom tooth! Hehehe!
We were on a boat here in Lake Naivasha to take in the sights, see different birds. Look here, white pelicans! Did you notice the right most bird has spiky hair? =)
It wasn't just birds that we saw here... Look at the Defassa water bucks! I know, I kinda like the common water bucks too with their bulls eye on the butt, but, the defassa water bucks are also beautiful! Hee-hee!
This are cormorants.
Of course, I forgot the name of this bird... Hee-hee!
That's the very first Tawny eagle we saw at the lake! One of the boat guides has a bunch of fish with him and threw one up for this tawny eagle... Well, we think this eagle is full. He didn't even bat an eye when the fish flew up in the air! =)
Luckily, we found another eagle on a different tree who was hungry! ;) When the guide threw the fish, it swooped down and caught it!!! That was really amazing to see the eagle swoop down really close to the water!
You're probably wondering about the title of this post, "Out of Africa"... Or maybe not... Anyways, the island pictured is called Crescent Island and was the actual location they used for the film "Out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford! I have yet to watch the movie but I have read the book and wow! The descriptions used in the book was exactly how it was! Well, minus all the progress that has happened in Kenya... =) I wish I had read the book before going on this safari! Well, regardless of the sequence of events, I'm still glad I read Out of Africa, for me, it's a pretty good book!
This is our first sighting of Masai giraffes!!! You ask how can you tell it's Masai giraffe? Just look at the pattern on their bodies, it's shaped like an oak leaf! Of course our location also helps in the identification of the giraffe, we're getting closer to the Masai Mara! Aren't the giraffes beautiful?
The nice thing about Crescent Island is we were allowed to walk around there, because there are no cats on the island! When they did the film, they said they only had 4 giraffes and 5 wildebeests. Look at how many they are now! I guess it helps a lot when there's no predators, huh? =D
Gnu! That's the actual sound they make! Boy are they noisy too! They seem to like running around! I like our boat guides description of the wildebeest. If you look at it, it's got the horns of a cape buffalo, the beard of a goat, the front legs of an antelope, the hind legs of a hyena and the tail of a horse! My-my, it's a mixed up animal! He said because of that, it's described as one of the ugliest animals! Har-har!
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