Dear family and friends,
Happy 2011, wishing you all a blessed New Year may all you have much peace and happiness in the upcoming year.
I spent a wonderful Christmas in Masai Mara with a group of folks and lots of wildlife. Including Grant's gazelle's,
The Mara is an amazing place, so much life in this place. Its connected to the Serengetti in the south and hosts the giant wildebeast migration in July and August. We saw lots of elephants including this mother and baby.
Saw several different prides of lions as well, most of the time sleeping under trees but this group was on there way to do some hunting because it was the end of the day.
We spotted this cheeta, it has just killed a gazelle which is off to the side. They have to rest before they eat to let the heart rate come back to normal.
This was my favorite sighting of the weekend, we saw a leopard just walking in the open plains which is rare since they are usually up in trees waiting for night to hunt. Super beautiful animals.
At the end of the trip we stopped by and visited one of the Masai villages. What a mix of cultures, some of these guys had cell phones. Hard to figure out what was going on.
After the safari I went with some of the folks to Mombasa for New Years which had a nice beach, did some snorkling and swimming. And these pictures above are from where I currently am which is called Lamu island, 6 hours to the north of Mombasa on the coast. Its an island with no cars, a nice change from the exhaust belching buses of Mombasa. The town is loaded with donkeys literally, they do all the work here. Its also an ancient swahali slave trading port. Its a super interesting place, very slow and hot being 10 south of the equator. I'm here with a couple friends and will be headed out tomorrow to see some areas to the south.
hope you are all staying warm this winter,
love,
Andy
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