Jambo, we are now at the Savoa Shaba Lodge in the Shaba National Park. We left Sweetwaters this morning, but not before we did a morning game drive. The park around Sweetwaters is a private conservation area and they specialize in the endangered Black Rhinos. They have about 45 in the park and they seem to be flourishing. They now have a Black Rhino ambassador, a blind adult male. They keep in in a special place because he cannot be in the wild. We went to see him and the ranger called to him. He took a while, but he finally zoned in on our location and came right to the fence. He gave us some sugar cane pieces and we fed him right from our hand! Richard even pet him and I talked sweetly (what else?) He was very calm and well mannered. He really crunched those canes right away. We then stopped to see the Chimpanzee enclosure. The Chimps are not from Kenya, but this is a place where they take in orphans and those found in bad captivity in the interior of the continent like Congo and West Africa. They give them a home and safe place to be chimps. The ones we saw were very large. I had no idea how big they grow...and those hands and feet are enormous!
Just a note here....we have met a lot of the local people here in Africa at these lodges. You would expect that they would have African sounding names....NOT We have met David, John, Peter, Paul, Jacob, Reuben, Joseph...all the names from the Bible. It is so unusual to have these familiar names here and we have black people in America who use very African sounding names...
We did see two lionesses walking around today. We saw our first giraffes, more gazelle, both Grant's and Thompson's gazelles. We saw Dik-Dik (yes that is right) and zebra. Richard found many beautiful birds and we took some great pictures of them. Richard also saw a Cheetah, but she was under bushes and not out in the open. We are going tomorrow to the Samburu village to give the children the school supplies and lollipops. I am looking forward to that! Will be in touch again tomorrow....
Just a note here....we have met a lot of the local people here in Africa at these lodges. You would expect that they would have African sounding names....NOT We have met David, John, Peter, Paul, Jacob, Reuben, Joseph...all the names from the Bible. It is so unusual to have these familiar names here and we have black people in America who use very African sounding names...
We did see two lionesses walking around today. We saw our first giraffes, more gazelle, both Grant's and Thompson's gazelles. We saw Dik-Dik (yes that is right) and zebra. Richard found many beautiful birds and we took some great pictures of them. Richard also saw a Cheetah, but she was under bushes and not out in the open. We are going tomorrow to the Samburu village to give the children the school supplies and lollipops. I am looking forward to that! Will be in touch again tomorrow....
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