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then over the radio came the message that Jackson had been listening for - the young lions had been located. We’d literally been 50m away from them when we’d been searching. Pretty incredible to get as close as we did, along with the maybe eight other safari vehicles Long drive back up to...

Back down to the valley and river at 4 Some better pics of the Grey Crowned Cranes More elephants and vervet monkeys we see these all of the time. They run down the road in front of us constantly and make quite the racket. Yellow-necked spurfowl/francolin We drove around and...

We have Thanks for that John. We have our cameras in a sealed box at home loaded up with silica. Hadn't thought to bring any with us. It's much cooler at the moment and it seems to be working ok again. Fingers crossed.

Vulturine guinea fowl A very large tower of giraffes up by the airstrip, maybe 14 A fleeting glimpse of a Kori bustard Then time for breakfast. A good spread. breakfast view from our table We had the rest of the morning and early afternoon until our next drive. I was going to have a...

Day 4 Samburu National Reserve Samburu National Reserve Two things I forgot to mention that happened yesterday. One was that the Sony RX10 decided to die as bAlt was taking photos of the leopard. I’d tried to talk him into letting me bring my trusty old Samsung NX500 but he’d said no. One...

More gazelle The first oryx of the trip Then elephants including two tiny babies We went down to the riverfront where we came across some vervet monkeys Then a pair of grey crowned cranes that I won’t post any photos of because they were blurry and we got some better ones the following...

Then to our room that was in the seventh of 15 buildings that run each side of the central lodge building. 60 rooms in total. Very cool little lizards encountered on the way Super cool room with a SUPER HARD bed. Told to keep the doors closed at night to ensure baboons don’t get in. the...

we crossed the river that we were to see a few times over the next couple of days then up to lodge that is a 9km rocky and rough drive up onto a plateau. It even has its own airport and 2900m A380 capable runway, not. A beautiful central lodge building with restaurant, bar, shop and spa...

A LEOPARD. OMFG! Literally a dream come true. Jackson was of the opinion that this was a female and had eaten not that long ago. All she did was pose perfectly for the camera. Magic. Leopard overload coming I find the whole wild animals so unfazed by vehicles around them so bizarre a...

Day 3 Ikweta Camp to Samburu Sopa Lodge Breakfast and today I tried scrambled and the boys fried and they were much more successful. We really enjoyed our stay at Ikweta and our visit to Meru NP. We were pretty much the only people in the park when we were there. A very strange, and...

A lilac breasted roller, a bird that we saw many of last year in south western Africa That was pretty much it. It was getting warm and Jackson suggested we call it and we agreed. Some local livestock being herded down the road Back to Ikweta where lunch time was approaching. Tilapia for...

We then went into the rhino sanctuary where there are 30ish black and white rhino. Chances of seeing? Very slim. Lots of grazers though as there are no predators inside the low and quite unusual electric fence. We came to a busy zebra crossing then behind a bush I saw something dark grey...

Day 2 Ikweta Camp - Meru National Park Apart from the ‘waking up at 3’ thing, we both had good sleeps. bAlt managed to go back to sleep and went through to 6 and I had another half hour after editing photos. We’d said breakfast at 6.30 for our 7.30 start. Fruit, poached eggs and toast for us...

A day ahead of the rest of this post but this was 10 minutes into the drive to Samburu after we’d entered the adjoining park. Full zoom on my iPhone. Better photos to come

that iconic African sunset shot an elephant with a broken ear a giraffe splaying legs and eating down and two end the afternoon a couple of zebras. We had an absolute ball. bStut couldn't believe what he had just seen. It brough bAlt and me so much joy to see the look on his face. When...

then the first of many elephants then elephants then some birds fish eagle golden kite? egrets more giraffes water bucks hippos, in Hippo Pond water buffalo more elephants, this time much closer

The entrance to Meru National Park Meru National Park | Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is about 2km from Ikweta. weaver bird nest a bird. Might even be a weaver. I suppose I could google it but oh well. Twitchers we are not 500 metres in and bStut’s intro kicked off - a big family of Olive...

We arrived at Ikweta Meru National Park Kenya Accommodation | iKWETA Safari Camp – Affordable Safari Luxury in eco-friendly natural elegance at about 2:30 We’d researched all of our accommodation and this is on the rustic end of where we’ll be staying. Tented chalets with ensuites, a central...

a few more from the drive. Scenery everchanging. Incredibly green and often we said to each other we could be driving at home. Well, except for the driving and the towns we drove through but it comes with triple QF points

We were in the lift on our way down when Jackson messaged to say he’d arrived. We are going to have a ball with this guy. We hadn’t seen bStut’s bags until now. Two hard shell bags - a large and a carry-on size - and a backpack. We both have a medium wheelie duffle, a backpack and a small...