Don't let me mention the dozens of giraffes we saw today outside the game park (apparently they didn't read the signs telling them to stay INSIDE), or the baboons lining the highway, or the Costco sized Masai gift shop that tempted me to bring home a 7 foot carving of a Masai warrior, in living color, complete with spear, and loin cloth....no, I won't mention any of that.
Now it's time for part two of this blessed sabbatical, off to see my sorely missed family and to endure some Italian cooking and Tuscan wines.... the sacrifice is nearly unbearable!
Here's a few photos from the last two days in the wild. While a few of the pix reminded me of a relative or two, I won't be dropping any names.....
A note about the photos: from the top: A Cape Buffalo (he will as soon charge you as look at you, the guide advised); a Zebra with her nearly invisible colt; Dumbo and his mom; and Wildebeest, nature's success story.
We saw over a million of them (this time I'm not exaggerating....)(really)...and they are evolution's brain child.
Why, you ask? (You didn't ask? Well, you should.)
They are nature's brain child because their meat tastes awful, they are ugly and their horns have no medicinal, aphrodisiac or other redeeming function: hence there are literally MILLIONS of these critters in this part of Africa.
Darwin would be proud!
And yes, these are the creatures that storm over the Mara River, some drowning, some crocodile dinner but most making it; and yes, our trusty guide got us there just in time to see this marvel of nature!
God bless you faithful reader. God willing, the next missive will be postmarked Milan, Italy.....
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