Travel Tips and Stories of Isiolo in Kenya
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Lilac-breasted Roller. I think the Lilac-breasted Roller is one of Africa’s most beautiful birds.
Black rhinos. A mother and baby black rhino in Lewa Conservancy, Kenya. The people at Lewa are world leaders in conservation and anti-poaching. It is my hope that my photos will somehow help in conserving wildlife and wilderness areas.I also design camouflage for anti-poaching use, see the page “Anti-poaching Camouflage� on my web site camouflagepatterns.wordpress.com, which is presently number one on Google.
Elephants greeting each other. Swamp near the headquarters of Lewa Conservancy, Kenya.
Excited elephant. After enjoying playing in the the waterhole, this elephant shakes its head in excitement. I like to try and capture special moments of behaviour when photographing wildlife. Some individuals seem to have more personality than others, such as this elephant in Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
Baby Black rhino. A cute baby black rhino cuddles up to mum’s back legs. I am glad I got the mother’s tufted tail in the photo as well. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya.
Lion moving at night. Photo taken at half a second shutter speed, ISO 2000, attempting to pan with a lion’s movements in almost total darkness. Not surprisingly its blurry, but I still like the feeling it evokes of the stealthy movement of a lion stalking at night. The title is a play on the names of the two man-eating lions of Tsavo in Kenya, “the Ghost�, and “the Darkness�, which killed and ate over 30 people when the Uganda - Mombasa railway was being built in 1898. There is a film about the man-eating lions of Tsavo, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, which is worth seeing.
Samburu hills. A classic African landscape, with a view of the hills in Samburu National Park, taken from Lewa Conservancy. There is a somewhat flat-topped hill to the left of the two peaks, barely visible in the haze, which is sacred to the Samburu people. In the valley below, we spotted white rhinos, elephants and buffalo.
baby giraffe. The guide, Daniel, estimated that this baby Reticulated giraffe would only be weeks or months old. Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya.
A cheetah poses nicely in the Lewa conservancy in Kenya.
Yawning cheetah. A cheetah yawns and displays its teeth. Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
Oxpeckers and a starling on a white rhino in Kenya.
A beautiful reticulated giraffe in Lewa Conservancy in Kenya. I think this type of giraffe has the most geometrical and starkly contrasting pattern, and is therefore perhaps the most photogenic of the different types of giraffes.
Daniel, tour guide extraordinaire. Daniel guided us around Lewa Conservancy. Nearly all the photos I took at Lewa were a result of his amazing skills as a guide. I have worked as a naturalist tour guide in Australia for nearly 18 years, and I would rate the guides I met in Africa as among the best of the best in the world.Thank you, Daniel, for a marvelous time at Lewa!
White rhino. A magnificent white rhino enjoys time next to a waterhole in the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya.
Lilac-breasted roller. One of my favorite African birds, photographed in Lewa Conservancy in early morning light.
After struggling up a steep bank, an elephant manages to climb out of the waterhole. Lewa conservancy, Kenya.
The Grevys zebra has thinner stripes close together and a white belly (so the stripes appear to be black on white) and is taller and slimmer than the common zebra. The Grevys zebra is the largest type of wild horse in the world, and while it is endangered, and the numbers have dropped dramatically since the seventies, they are doing well at Lewa Conservancy and Samburu National Park in Kenya.
Crowned cranes. The fabulous grey-crowned crane, the national bird of Uganda. Lewa Conservancy, Kenya.
The Somali ostrich is a very handsome ostrich, and is different to the common ostrich, with slightly blue legs and a deep pink bill.
Beautiful Beisa oryx, Lewa conservancy, Kenya. These antelope are similar to the Gemsbok of Southern Africa, which have bolder markings on their sides and hindquarters, and also live in semi-arid to arid habitats.