Pictures from George
On the plane - Seatac
12-18
Bryan joins us from L.A.
12-19
Sunset across the continent
Kilimanjaro arrival.
Hot and very windy. End, day 2
Kia Lodge - spread across 3 huts
12-20
Mt. Kilimanjaro from Kia pool
On the road to town (Arusha)
Coffee
Giraffe/auto collision
Arusha
Arusha
This would be the 1 & only store
Cow crossing
Road built for/by Japan Emperor
Lake Manyara Entrance
Lake Manyara visitor center
Sausage Tree
Vervet Monkeys
1st box lunch - huge, yummy!
Picnic view w/ lake in distance
The warning
More posturing
Let's get out of here!
Reticulated giraffe
Dik dik
Lion pair
To the river
Babboons everywhere.
Two of a couple dozen
Blue Monkey
Bluer Monkey, over roof too
Lake Manyara
The meeting place.
50 km of backbreaking siltiness.
Palms sound like an ocean storm.
End of day 3.
12-21
The Bushmen/women
Practice makes perfect.
Like this.
Nice.
The royal treatment.
The most refreshing pond ever!
No crocs, snakes, or snails.
George gets a one minute break.
Okay, who packed a football???
Lake Eyasi in the distance (dry)
As rough as it gets.
Our journalist at work.
Leaving Kisima Ngeda Tented Lodg
-Just us and the onion truck.
THE crater!!!
Three gigantic suites/ 5 courses
End of day 4.
Sunscreen before sun up.
12-22
The gate opens at 6:30 a.m.
Became a park in 1956 (British)
A buffalo can take 5 lions
Warthog
Wildebeest
Hyenas
Eating buffalo remains.
Crown cranes.
Morning air feels about 55'
Secretary Bird
Warthogs kneel to eat
Impala and crane
Thomson gazelle
25,000 gazelles in crater.
Bat eared Fox
morning shadows
Muddy hippos
Greater and Lesser Flamingos
500,000 zebras in Serengeti.
Inner beauty?
1,000,000 wildebeasts in Sereng.
Kori Bustard
Hippos out of water, z's. e's
Hildebrandt's Starling.
Circling . . . Brett's sandwich.
lunch: egg, chick, sand, fruit,
Trouble!
Dusty
Dustier
Three (rare) Black Rhinos - 1 mi
Cheetah are also "fragile"
Serval Cat
Zebras chasing the little kitty.
End of day five.
Panoramic view from every room!
Can't we please stay?
12-23
Each suite is 1/2 of the circle
Walkways are patrolled at night.
Last view of the crater.
Masai tribespeople
Footsteps of early man.
Desolate. No real road.
Females. 1 egg feeds 40.
Shifting sands earlier location.
Sand with metal particles.
Shifting sands keeps same mass.
The sands are sacred to some.
Igama lizard
Greeting at rest stop/entrance.
White bearded Bastian
Heartebeest
A "scout" lioness - 4 ft. away!
Lion family
You don't want to know.
Also catfish, black mambo,
Also boom snakes.
Mom and two cubs.
dark, fast, heads out of truck
End of day six.
Serengeti Sopa singers
The Serengeti is VERY dark.
Trip's best sunrise. Acacia tree
12-24
Fish Eagle
Goss Hawk
Rudolph?
Bat eared fox Mwayhamoseque
Two black rhinos (of only 15!!)
Box breakfast on rock overlook.
Lion imposter.
Remember, stay in sight.
Gong rocks.
You can see forever from here.
Masai paintings.
Aloe vera.
Rothchild giraffe.
We are shy.
So are we.
Afternoon outing after pool time
The Serengeti has 4000 lions.
Topi.
near Simba Kopjes
Cheetah. 1 in 12 cubs mature.
Long, long, steady journey.
I think I smell a . . . LION!
Mission accomplished.
Topi.
Kopjes rocks (Lion King). Day 7
Camp in southern Serengeti
12-25
We arrive Christmas day.
After cool drinks & warm cloths
Stay in shape!
Soccer
Let's go on a walk.
What's the plan?
Do you think they want to play?
Look what came out of the hole.
End of day eight.
Drive to Central Serengeti.
12-26
Poor zebra.
12-26
Leopard's catch - reed buck.
The tail gave her away.
Stampede anyone?
No wonder they can't find mom.
Being brave.
Leopard 2.
Grey hornbill.
Crocodile takes a dip.
Three hyena converge on zebra
Lioness arrives/ hyenas scatter
3 nearly full grown cheetah
Thomson gazelle fatality.
Day nine is ending.
Fireside snacks/drinks/antics.
Johnson takes primo care of us.
Unicorn?
12-27
Southern Serengeti is HOT!!
Dehydration isn't everything.
Ostriches run 70 kph. Fall over
Drive across to camp. End #10.
Morning light on the meadow.
12-28
Wake up and pack for Zanzibar
Water buck
New boss has been hired.
2 hours late, clears own runway.
P1010388A.jpg 2005-12-28
A new kind of adventure.
Pool? Or ocean?
P1010416A.jpg 2005-12-29
Pretty good waves. Warm!
The disco.
Brett & active activities dude
Merry Christmas 2005!
Freddy Mercury's Restaurant
The men's holding cell
Leaving Zanzibar forthe mainland
Midnight in the first timezone
Goodbye to Bryan in Amsterdam.
Home sweet home.
Tanzania 12/05
On the plane - Seatac
12-18
Bryan joins us from L.A.
12-19
Sunset across the continent
Kilimanjaro arrival.
Hot and very windy. End, day 2
Kia Lodge - spread across 3 huts
12-20
Mt. Kilimanjaro from Kia pool
On the road to town (Arusha)
Coffee
Giraffe/auto collision
Arusha
Arusha
This would be the 1 & only store
Cow crossing
Road built for/by Japan Emperor
Lake Manyara Entrance
Lake Manyara visitor center
Sausage Tree
Vervet Monkeys
1st box lunch - huge, yummy!
Picnic view w/ lake in distance
The warning
More posturing
Let's get out of here!
Reticulated giraffe
Dik dik
Lion pair
To the river
Babboons everywhere.
Two of a couple dozen
Blue Monkey
Bluer Monkey, over roof too
Lake Manyara
The meeting place.
50 km of backbreaking siltiness.
Palms sound like an ocean storm.
End of day 3.
12-21
The Bushmen/women
Practice makes perfect.
Like this.
Nice.
The royal treatment.
The most refreshing pond ever!
No crocs, snakes, or snails.
George gets a one minute break.
Okay, who packed a football???
Lake Eyasi in the distance (dry)
As rough as it gets.
Our journalist at work.
Leaving Kisima Ngeda Tented Lodg
-Just us and the onion truck.
THE crater!!!
Three gigantic suites/ 5 courses
End of day 4.
Sunscreen before sun up.
12-22
The gate opens at 6:30 a.m.
Became a park in 1956 (British)
A buffalo can take 5 lions
Warthog
Wildebeest
Hyenas
Eating buffalo remains.
Crown cranes.
Morning air feels about 55'
Secretary Bird
Warthogs kneal to eat
Impala and crane
Thomson gazelle
25,000 gazelles in crater.
Bat eared Fox
morning shadows
Muddy hippos
Greater and Lesser Flamingos
500,000 zebras in Serengeti.
Inner beauty?
1,000,000 wildebeasts in Sereng.
Kori Bustard
Hippos out of water, z's. e's
Hildebrandt's Starling.
Circling . . . Brett's sandwich.
lunch: egg, chick, sand, fruit,
Trouble!
Dusty
Dustier
Three (rare) Black Rhinos - 1 mi
Cheetah are also "fragile"
Serval Cat
Zebras chasing the little kitty.
End of day five.
Panoramic view from every room!
Can't we please stay?
12-23
Each suite is 1/2 of the circle
Walkways are patrolled at night.
Last view of the crater.
Masai tribespeople
Footsteps of early man.
Desolate. No real road.
Females. 1 egg feeds 40.
Shifting sands earlier location.
Sand with metal particles.
Shifting sands keeps same mass.
The sands are sacred to some.
Igama lizard
Greeting at rest stop/entrance.
White bearded Bastian
Heartebeest
A "scout" lioness - 4 ft. away!
Lion family
You don't want to know.
Also catfish, black mambo,
Also boom snakes.
Mom and two cubs.
dark, fast, heads out of truck
End of day six.
Serengeti Sopa singers
The Serengeti is VERY dark.
Trip's best sunrise. Acacia tree
12-24
Fish Eagle
Goss Hawk
Rudolph?
Bat eared fox Mwayhamoseque
Two black rhinos (of only 15!!)
Box breakfast on rock overlook.
Lion imposter.
Remember, stay in sight.
Gong rocks.
You can see forever from here.
Masai paintings.
Aloe vera.
Rothchild giraffe.
We are shy.
So are we.
Afternoon outing after pool time
The Serengeti has 4000 lions.
Topi.
near Simba Kopjes
Cheetah. 1 in 12 cubs mature.
Long, long, steady journey.
I think I smell a . . . LION!
Mission accomplished.
Topi.
Kopjes rocks (Lion King). Day 7
Camp in southern Serengeti
12-25
We arrive Christmas day.
After cool drinks & warm cloths
Stay in shape!
Soccer
Let's go on a walk.
What's the plan?
Do you think they want to play?
Look what came out of the hole.
End of day eight.
Drive to Central Serengeti.
12-26
Poor zebra.
12-26
Leopard's catch - reed buck.
The tail gave her away.
Stampede anyone?
No wonder they can't find mom.
Being brave.
Leopard 2.
Grey hornbill.
Crocodile takes a dip.
Three hyena converge on zebra
Lioness arrives/ hyenas scatter
3 nearly full grown cheetah
Thomson gazelle fatality.
Day nine is ending.
Fireside snacks/drinks/antics.
Johnson takes primo care of us.
Unicorn?
12-27
Southern Serengeti is HOT!!
Dehydration isn't everything.
Ostriches run 70 kph. Fall over
Drive across to camp. End #10.
Morning light on the meadow.
12-28
Wake up and pack for Zanzibar
Water buck
New boss has been hired.
2 hours late, clears own runway.
P1010388A.jpg 2005-12-28
A new kind of adventure.
Pool? Or ocean?
P1010416A.jpg 2005-12-29
Pretty good waves. Warm!
The disco.
Brett & active activities dude
Merry Christmas 2005!
Freddy Mercury's Restaurant
The men's holding cell
Leaving Zanzibar forthe mainland
Midnight in the first timezone
Goodbye to Bryan in Amsterdam.
Home sweet home.