Masai Mara

Last night the full team of 15 professors and students working for Clarice arrived, which means Sharon and I were forced to take a break and go on safari. The Masai Mara is basically just an extension of the Serengeti once you cross from Tanzania into Kenya. We were promised a wildebeest migration, but unfortunately they made a poor showing. Nonetheless, it’s one of the most amazing places in the world, can’t complain.

The full team arrives in the Mara for a bonding weekend before the real work begins.

Baboons actually went in some of our rooms, rummaging around for food!

There’s really nothing quite like a Kenyan sunrise, except maybe a Kenyan sunset.

I took mostly video this time. This beautiful photo of me and my fuzzy microphone was taken by Natacha with her fancy pants camera.

Impalas going at it in an early morning excersize.

Sleepy lion waking up.

Get over here and gimme some lovin.

Breakfast by the hippo pool complemented by a Maasai warrior-led nature walk.

Lioness 1 Buffalo 0

Interesting mistake.

This is a waterbuck, basically a donky with horns.

A topi (“blue jeans”) with a secretary bird, known for stomping on its prey as if typing on a keyboard.

A lion leaping after a pack of hyenas after munching on a cub.

Hyenas taking guard. A pack can actually take down a really old lion.

Oh it’s on now!

Running away.

About that sunrise…