Comfort Food

After making it 80 km out of Narok before blowing out a vital gasket in our cooling system and having to limp our way back to town, it was nice to come home to Mexican food.

Von der Decken's Hornbill

Baby Giraffe

White-browed Coucal...with a catch.

More Frogs

We were driving out of a small riparian forest near the confluence of the Mara and Talek rivers when we hit a big mud patch. Amanda exited the vehicle to scout out the path ahead to see if we could make it through the mud when these two guys surprised her. Look closely at the big guy...right on his back...the milky secretions of toxins designed to thwart the attempts of herpers from picking him up. Of course, this did not deter Amanda...only made it more fun.

Sucker

Simullidae...this sucker, literally, usually doesn't need the best water quality conditions. We find him at some of our sites as the quality deteriorates over time.

Where have we been sampling the water?

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You should see about 40 blue dots on the map above. If you click on any of the dots, you will see a picture from that site. If you don't see any blue dots, sorry...still experimenting with this. Sometimes it helps to try refreshing the page...and the blue dots may appear. If they still don't appear...don't think that we aren't doing any sampling. :)

Even if they do appear, these aren't all of our sites...just the ones I had time to get uploaded to view here. Imagine... trying to upload all this information from Narok on a cellular connection. :) I should be able to get them all up soon and maybe even some of the interesting data.

Brewing Storm

Remember...

This is Memorial Day.

Remember.

Honor the fallen as well as the ones still fighting for our freedoms (If you know me personally, at least read the article).

Thanks...Mara Conservancy Will

We ran into Mara Conservancy Will at the New Mara Bridge during our last sampling effort.  It was just about 3pm and we were running a bit late.  We were trying to make it to the Conservancy camp site near Mara Serena but Will encouraged us to push a bit further and camp at one of the camp sites next to the Mara...well...we are sure glad we listened to him.  Here is a picture from the campsite with the sun rising the next morning.