Leopard walking in the grass
May 2007: Lake Nakuru
Leopard walking in the grass
In early May, we went hiking with Lester and
Karna on Mt Longonaut. We took our housekeeper Doreen with us as
well so that she could get a chance to see some of her country.
Unfortunately, Ruma was in Sudan, so she didnt join us. We were
all sore following our hike, and it showed in the next days Frisbee
match. Later, we spent the weekend with our
friends Prince and Sarah at Nakuru NP. We stayed in the WWF house
inside the park. We saw lots of animals while we were there,
including Rhino, flamingo, giraffe, but also a leopard! It has
been a
long time since we have seen a leopard (since our first trip to the Masai Mara) so that was definitely
the highlight. On the other end of the scale, the mosquitos were
awful. Apparently, as part of an anti-malaria campaign, some
non-malaria carrying mosquitos were released intentionally into the
wild to
compete with the native malaria-carrying ones. As a result, the
park was just swarming (at least the Northern end). Ugh.