We began yesterday at 2.30pm as we
headed for the airport in Aberdeen. By 8pm Dutch time, we were in
Amsterdam for our connecting flight with Kenya Airways to Nairobi.
The flight went very smoothly, with the softest landing we have ever
experienced in a long-haul flight and we arrived 25 minutes ahead of
schedule. However, the visa queue in Nairobi was rather long, so it
was after 7am local time when we finally got on the move. The road to
Voi had light traffic for a change and we made good time. On an even
more positive note, this is the first time we have not witnessed a
serious accident on that road, although we did find a road-kill
Serval about 15 kilometres south of Nairobi :-(
Not everything went right though, as
Howard (aka Dumbass) forgot to check if the Safaricom dongle was in
the laptop bag, so we do not have our internet dongle for uploading
the blog. Fortunately he did have the foresight to purchase a 50GB
data roaming bundle just in case of dongle connection problems like
last year, so all is not lost. We have arranged with our friend, Tiju
to purchase one from her shop when we exit Tsavo East National Park
on Thursday.
By the time we got to Tsavo, we were
both exhausted and just did a quick circuit of Kanderi Swamp, where
we saw Elephants, Grant's Gazelle, Warthog, Waterbuck and Impala.
We have decided this year, as it is
just the two of us for the first time since 2006, we would have a
little luxury, so we are spending four nights in the Ndololo Safari
Camp, next to the public campsite where we normally pitch our tents.
We had a short walk around the camp
with the Askari and paid a visit to the public campsite, where we
found the anti-snare team from Care For The Wild Kenya. We donated a
GPS to these guys last year, so it was great to hear how it is being
put to good use. It was quite shocking, however, to see how many
snares they are dealing with on a daily basis. Howard then had
another brainwave and decided to donate our night vision monocular
for their night-ambush work.
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| Handing over the Night-Vision Monocular to the guys from Care For The Wild Kenya |
By the time we had eaten dinner, we
were both exhausted and just wanted to sleep but we promised a blog,
so here it is.
Good night!
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