elephant

The day after I landed in Nairobi Kenya, we visited the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi. A fenced area in the middle of the compound—about 100 x 200 feet—had the classic African reddish clay soil. Mounds … Read More

Amboseli National Park, Kenya. We stayed at a simple, but very charming and classic safari lodge, at a town nearby. We enjoyed daily drives down to the lake where local elephants came to feast on the water lilies, cool off, … Read More

It was our first evening at the Karatu Simba Lodge in Tanzania. This was our base lodge for the game drives to shores of Lake Manyara in Manyara National Park.   This lodge and pool back onto the outskirts of … Read More

Last day in Manyara National Park in Tanzania, about an hour or so drive from our Karatu Simba Lodge home base. In the early afternoon the sun was still pretty intense.   Many large herds of elephants had come down … Read More

We had just arrived at the shores of Lake Manyara in Manyara National Park, Tanzania. Our base was Karatu Simba Lodge in the nearby roadside town outside of national park boundaries. The older cousin started to smell and check out … Read More

Last day in Manyara National Park in Tanzania. Late afternoon, and the elephant moms with newborn calves were starting to get out of Lake Manyara, where they’d been feeding on water lilies. It was time to dry out and head … Read More