You know we love a good excuse to get out into the bush, so we took advantage of a National Holiday, Elizabeth’s visit, Anderson’s birthday, and some generous friends and headed out to the Southern Serengeti for the weekend. Despite sick kids (you know the vomiting, fever, snot-filled, coughing kind?) and the requisite car trouble we still had an amazing weekend. Our kids are amazing!
We had heard the “Great Migration” was still in the Ndutu/Southern Serengeti area, so we changed our plans for a visit to Tarangire National Park and Lake Eyasi to try and catch it. We saw things that we’ve never seen before (lions in a tree!) plus we saw lot of things that we always love to see (cheetah! leopard!).
In camp at our Naabi Hill Campsite we had lots of visitors: marabou storks, giraffe, elephant, impala, and buffalo (that we heard at night right outside our tent…sick kids in the middle of the night might have had some benefit) not to mention a gorgeous sunset and full moon rise.
Zebra. So many new babies that were so brown and fuzzy.
When you’ve got an itch….
Majestic Elephants
Vast Serengeti skies.
Hyena: with gazelle, taking off with the morning catch, and hanging in Lake Ndutu
Black-backed jackal and bat eared fox
Warthog and Giraffe
Lions, lions, and more lions.
Ready for a nap after his morning feast (notice bloody paws and mouth)
Still feasting on the morning wildebeest catch
Can you see them all? Eight in the tree plus some more down below. Highlight! Anderson declared this the best part of his birthday.
Cheetah taking a little nap (two more were behind this one)
Can you spot the leopard?
I’m always amazed that someone was able to spot something like this.
It took a little doing, but we finally found THE migration.
Since I don’t think the pictures do justice to the magnitude of wildebeest and zebra, I took a panning video. Moves a little fast, but you get the idea (listen closely and you can hear the zebra call)
Some very phallic nests
Fundi Matt trying to diagnose our car problem (on the drive out). At least we had really nice views of the Ngorongoro crater while we waited.
And finally (temporarily) fixing the problem on the way home. Amazing what a Leatherman and some duct tape can fix.
Another great Tanzanian Weekend!
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