To the Nakuru Game Park!

This morning excitement was running high as we four piled into our little bitty car and set off to the game park.  It was barely sprinkling, but the weather forecast promised that by 7:00 a.m. there would be little chance of rain.  The overcast skies made for perfect picture taking!

We saw monkeys, pink flamingoes, pelicans, cormorants, gazelle, zebras, waterbucks, baboons, hyraxes, cape buffalo, a jackal, and a big ol' rhino.  The park is loaded with animals!  And now for the pictures.  BJ was our animal photographer today.

African black rhino

Pelicans and cormorants on Lake Nakuru

Herd of gazelles

Waterbucks and gazelles together

Zebras

Pink flamingoes on Lake Nakuru

As you can see the natural landscape and scenery all the way through here is so beautiful!

Here was our jackal!

It is amazing that we even got to see a jackal.  They are very elusive animals.

Thompson gazelle

Notice the herd of black dots behind that gazelle.  Herd of what???  That is what we were wondering too.  As we got closer to them, I felt my heart pounding in my throat!  It was a herd of probably 200 cape buffalo, and we had to drive right through the middle of them in, I repeat, our little bitty car.

Huge herd of cape buffalo

Take a look at this big fellow

And him on the other side of the road

Some of these buffalo were literally only 5 to 8 feet from our little bitty car.  And uh, most of them did not look very happy.  Pleeeeease, don't stampede, ya'll!

We kept telling Seth how very blessed we are to get to live in Africa and that we get to go to parks like this.  Think about it.  Very few children in the States ever get to go to a game park in Kenya!  He was having the time of his life.

Soon we made it to the Baboon Cliff Viewpoint

And the view up there was spectacular!

It was right past these guys that our adventure really began.  Coming up soon is my next post Stranded in the Wild!