Adventures in the Mara

About two weeks worth of images from the Mara....

We're down in Asheville, North Carolina, visiting with family. This morning, Amanda is reading a book on Kenya to our nephew's class...

Three rolls of packing tape, 150 photocopied pages of permits and $833 USD to DHL later, we finally got all our samples shipped home from K...

When shipping water samples, it's best to wrap the lids with electrical tape to ensure nothing accidentally opens en route. Of course, y...

It looks like it is starting to rebound a bit.   Why is dissolved oxygen important? Oxygen is measured in its dissolved form as d...

The common form of public transportation in Kenya is a matatu. Matatus are mini-vans that have been converted to carry impressive number...

We have been writing a lot recently about our departure from the Mara. We’ll be returning to the USA and Yale for the next six months so I ...

Wildebeest aren't the only animals that cross the river.  Our heat/motion activated hippo trail camera captured a group of elephants ju...

Packing up a field camp for six months is a challenging thing. I thought I would try to distill some of the key elements down into a list.....

Doing some last-minute fine tuning of our hippo pool camera, while two hippos watch on.