August 13th 2017
Just 500m away from the camp we had the luck to rediscover the white rhino family from the evening before right at the edge of the lake.
Unfortunately, there were very few flamingos on the lake this year and they were in an inaccessible area. However, as Eric was able to find out, this time there were a lot of them at Lake Bogoria. Even at Lake Naivasha, where we were planning a boat safari on the way to the Masai Mara later on, there were no flamingos this year. So we decided to make a day trip to Lake Bogoria on the next day, not to miss the flamingos.
In the afternoon we passed a group of baboons on the Game Drive. Especially the young ones looked at us with interest, the older ones didn’t mind us very much.
Then we discovered a black Rhino bull, which was busy marking the area and which we could observe for a longer time, until it became too much for him and he chased us away in a snorting rage.
Not far from the rhino a group of buffalos grazed. Suddenly Andrea noticed that a cow had just given birth to a calf, so we were able to witness the first minutes in the life of a buffalo calf. Even our experienced guide, Eric, said that he had only witnessed something like this once before.
The sister also showed great interest and admired the newcomer.
And then after about 30 minutes followed the first clumsy steps.
It was a great experience to witness the beginning of a life in Africa. Later on we discovered another pair of crown cranes at a waterhole.
On the way back to camp a huge hippo posed for us.
