The Lewa conservancy is a vast track of land with a healthy population of rhino and rigorous poaching controls. We were able to spend two days at a safari camp on the conservancy with our guide, Festus. Most of the terrain was grass and long, rolling hills but there were some wooded valleys and even a lake/swamp where animals tended to congregate. Here are some pictures from the first day.
A giraffe, when it feels threatened, will hide in whatever cover is available. If you look close you can see one in in this picture.
A giraffe, when it feels threatened, will hide in whatever cover is available. If you look close you can see one in in this picture.
This was a blank rhino we came across on one of the Lewa hills.
Another side shot of the rhino.
Rhino stink eye is a special kind of stink eye. Once this rhino started squaring off with the vehicle the driver slowly retreated. Normally we were totally ignored by the wildlife but, in the cases we weren't, the guides discretely retreated (at least
A great shot of a Grevy Zebra. Our guide told us there were 12 easy ways to distinguish a Grevy zerbra from a common zebra and at the time I could give you 8. Now all I have is that the stripes don't reach the belly.
This was the same pair of cheetah brothers that we saw the day before. The day before they were lean and sleek. Now they are bloated after gorging on a breakfast of Kellogs Impala-bits.
A full cheetah sits down next to his stomach.
A burp helps.
Cheetahs of Lewa.
A bush breakfast at Lewa.
Nora at Kai next to a "yellow fever tree".
A Lewa ostrich.
There were tons of warthogs in every park but they were shy. As soon as they would see us they would trot away so this was our most common view of a warthog - from behind.
Feeding giraffes.
A pride of 8 lions spralled under a tree sleeping in the mid-day sun. One was almost certainly the collared lioness from the day before.
Lion sleeping in the grass.
Lioness with flies.