Wednesday pm 15 April.
Head off for a game drive at 4 pm. Shortly after leaving our compound we come across Cape Buffalo. The park is only 270 square kilometres and Lake Nakuru is a natural lake but has no outlet. Since Covid the lake has increased in size substantially thereby reducing the park area. Rainfall has increased over this time.
We continue on and there are hippos eating on the banks of the lake. We watch them for a while and then they run into the water. This is the first time we have seen hippos out of the water during daylight. Our next highlight is a family of Baboons right beside the track with a couple of very young ones. The terrain has a high ridge on our left and thick bush and trees slope down towards the lake. Pushing on further over a very bumpy track we climb up to the top of the ridge where it plateaus. As we progress further lions are spotted up a hill about 500 metres away. There appears to be three of them, two males and a female. They are resting in the shade and eventually move further into the bush.
Our next sighting is Rothschild giraffes, about a dozen of them. We take up an advantage position as they seem to be heading our way. There are also Zebras and impalas. Then there is a hyena walking past them, not interested in them at all, while the impala keep an eye on him. It is now after 5.30 and we start to make our way back. Abdi our driver is on the two way radio and suddenly turns up this track. We have only gone a couple of hundred metres when there is a lioness walking along the path towards us. It walks straight past our jeep, you could reach out and touch it.
We then head back and on the way the two male lions are still at the same place but have moved out of the brush and can now be seen more clearly. The female must have been sent off to find their dinner!
What a great afternoon!
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