Corey, wearing Su-Jen's shoes, and Spencer. These are 2 of the many children in our village. They often come into our yard to play. Corey loves to bounce on the full Solar Shower bags. It is a very special day when he wears pants.
Squishing a giraffe in Hell's Gate National Park....
This large bull giraffe crossed the road right in fromt of Barret and I as we were walking though the park. We followed him for a while and also found him the next morning from a ridge top.
The park calls these "caves", but I think we are spoiled in Indiana with large underground caves. These were Obsidian "cliffs" - magma that once flowed over the landscape and cooled into a hard shiny black glass-like rock. Right where Barret is standing we found a hyena den with bones and porcupine quills littered around the entrance.
This bustard was HUGE!
Vista from campsite night 1
We walked with tons of zebra, hartebeest, eland, gazelle, impala, and buffalo.
Inside the gorge - you can see Central Tower in the center of the picture. Down the way were hot springs coming right out of the sides of the rock walls.
This is what we do every day....Barret enters up to 40 focal follows a day, I enter all of the data from the notebooks (ad lib grooming and aggressions).
Mt/ Longonot National Park. We hiked up to the crater rim and then all the way around it! The hike around took about 3 hours. The crater bottom is to my left and the outside world to my right.
Grasshopper/locust? found in Mt. Longonot NP
Overlooking Hells Gate NP. This morning we hiked up to a raptor hide the park had built for viewing all of the vultures and raptors which nest on the cliff sides.
Saph, Marina's long time friend, invited us over for dinner. Left to right: Saph, Marina, Kristin, Su-Jen, and me. Barret and I often have Saph over for dinner as he is an excellent cook and keeps good conversation going!
Here we all are in all of our full glory - field wear. Kristin with her recording device and microphone to record the male vocalizations, me with binoculars, Barret with GPS unit, and Su-Jen with fecal collection kit! Together we could rule the forest.
A blue-headed bee eater which frequents the tea plantation/forest edge in GN grp's territoy.
When on vacation in Naivasha we stumbled into this village and met Peter, a german man living in the village. He was a chef and cooked us the best food we have had since we came here. We came back to him for 4 meals!
At Saph's for dinner, left to right: Agnes, Nathan, Saph, and Barret. Agnes was an intern for Su-Jen and Nathan was an undergrad doing his thesis research with Marina.
The field staff (plus) at Marina's goodbye party
Top left to right: Wilberforce Okeka, Barret, Charles (a Field Assistant), Derrick (FA), Marina, Ernest (FA)
Middle left to right: Patrick (Su-Jen's worker), and me
Bottom left to right: Kristin, Agnes, Millie (FA), Su-Jen, and Erick (FA)
