Safari days 2 and 3

Evolutionary biology really is an amazing thing to wonder how many of the animals we've been seeing have evolved. It's certainly true that reality is stranger than fiction and even the Ewoks of Star Wars look like they belong on Earth more than the creatures that roam around the Masai Mara.


The rhinos we saw were on a sanctuary so they were mildly tame as long as we stayed a couple meters away.

A bit of ostrich trivia is that it's the only animal whose eyeball is bigger than it's brain.

Hippos tend to spend most of the day in the water so it was nice to get a group photo of them sunbathing.

The newborn giraffe came into the world today and it can walk within five minutes of being born and run within fifteen minutes from what we were told.

Elephants eat all day, literally for up to something crazy like twenty hours. They also don't stop eating while it comes out the other end either, talk about a machine!


The cape buffalo pictured above is very, very dangerous although most people don't think it's so.

The leopard is Shauna's favorite animal but she won't admit to imagining a new fur coat when she sees each leopard.

If we had the heavy photo equipment like the guys below, our photos would've been much better.

Quick photo of us sticking out the top of the Land Rover.


To finish off our last evening with the lodge, the staff brought out a surprise cake which on it was written hopes that we can return. Certainly we'd suggest it to everyone we know and hope that we will return!

Ryan never had anything like this before and was really surprised and happy (but that doesn't mean people need to start doing it for him now).