A ROMPING WESTERN BLACK RHINOCEROS DRIVER
A ROMPING WESTERN BLACK RHINOCEROS FULL

We watched the young lions as they wandered through the plains in search of dinner. The highlight of our night game drive was the three male lions we encountered.

A ROMPING WESTERN BLACK RHINOCEROS FULL

And the moon was full so it lit the way for our game drive. It is so different to experience Africa on a night game drive. On our night game drive we saw elephant, back rhino, mongoose, Cape buffalo, giraffe. It is the first time I have cried that much seeing any animal in Africa. So incredibly rare to see and here we were. The adult and puppies running around romping and playing and yipping. They were doing a “greeting dance” and it was so awesome. I jumped up and when I turned to see the dog they were all playing and romping around. I looked up and when I saw all of the dogs I dropped my phone and my camera went flying. I was sitting down checking an email on my phone when he tapped me.

A ROMPING WESTERN BLACK RHINOCEROS DRIVER

My driver Felix knew this and he took us to where their dens are in hopes of seeing them and when we pulled up he turned around a tapped me. Highlight of our game drive in sweetwaters especially for me personally was seeing a huge pack of more then 25 wild dogs with 15 pups!!! In my travels to Africa it’s been my dream to see wild dogs and I never have. In amboseli they broke right through the main security gate and wandered into our lodge during the night. If Africa there really isn’t anything elephant proof. The elephants – at the watering hole they get so close! Wow! And they test the barrier which is just a small Hill with a tiny fence. Then he or she wandered to over to where we were all standing and posed as if to say thank you very much. Then he or she popped up and the legs snapped back together. He or she meandered up and spread their legs to bend down and drink. One of the highlights was a giraffe coming to the watering hole at lunch to drink. It’s hard to eat a meal when you keep getting up from the table to head out to the watering hole watch a herd of 20 elephants come in (with babies!) to drink from the watering hole. Every meal – breakfast, lunch and dinner- comes with a view of the animals as they hang at the watering hole. Sweetwaters is a tented camp in Kenya with an amazing watering hole. What can I say about Sweetwaters? One of my most favorite places in Africa. It’s almost the end of our trip and the Mara is a wonderful way to end amazing trip. We are sure to see many lions, hippos and crocodiles there. And the people are so welcoming and happy. It’s interesting being emerged into the culture. As we travel through Kenya we encounter the towns. The Rift Valley is a beautiful place with mountains and valleys flush with green.

We are traveling through the Rift Valley today on our way to the Masai Mara. The one place where it would have been possible was being inhabited by black rhino and Cape buffalo and they would not welcome us out of the vehicle. It has not been a good thing for the park or the flamingos but they are finally starting to come back now. Places where we got out and walked around in the park are completely submerged. Very different from when I was here last year. Lake Nakuru is flooded right now and many roads have been washed out. The leopard is the last of the big five we have not seen. A perfect place for leopard yet we still haven’t seen one. Very lush with lots off trees and bushes. The landscape is very different here then the Mara, Amboseli and sweetwaters. We encountered several different species of large bird during our game drive. Many various types of stork and eagle also inhabit this area. The lake, an alkaline based lake, is home to thousands of birds including lesser flamingos and spoonbills. I am amazed at how many black rhino we have seen during this trip. During our game drive we saw several black rhino again. Lake Nakuru is flush with all types of wildlife including Cape buffalo, zebra, impala, water buck, giraffe and black rhino.

A romping western black rhinoceros