Reporting Date: 9 November 2012

Mother  elephant suckling.                                  9 November 2012

We found a group of Elephants with their young in some open acacia woodlands on our way to the airstrip. One of the mothers had her baby suckling while at the same time she was keeping herself cool by flapping her ears. She was also trying to feed off some little plants below the trees.

Reporting Date: 7.11.2012

Daniel with his two guest set off into Mara Game Reserve  with expectations of seeing at least a cheetah. This was a special request from the junior in the family and they agreed that nature as usual will work miracles. The drive to the cheetah country was great with lots of common game sighting but the pick was the sighting of a lioness having a snack from a baby warthog.

This surpassed even the sighting of a cheetah that they later came across near Talek river. They watched the big cat crush ,chew the tender bones and swallow easily till the end of the meal. Nothing was left behind for the scavenging family.

Reporting Date: 05 November 2012

Lionesses with cubs in the rains             

On an afternoon game drive, ranger Godson and guests found some two female lions with their little cubs. They  were in only  a short distance away from where the territorial males were. Most of the times female with young cubs would separate themselves from the males to look after the cubs.  The cubs were so playful, climbing up and down the bodies of their mothers who were sleeping. They did not care about the rains.

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Reporting Date: 03.11.2012

The grassy plains of the Mara game reserve are already looking nice and green due to the rains that have been pounding for the last ten days. The Mara river gets flooded due to heavy rains upstream. Ranger Japhet and his guests witnessed a very interesting wildebeest crossing down at the mara river. They watched a herd of wildebeest swim across with some of them being pushed further down stream due to strong water current. The small group took refuge on an island in the river and before long they decided to swim across and re-join the others. Japhet guests were happy to see all the wildebeest make it through un-harmed.

Reporting Date: 1st November 2012

Elephants walking through the grass- lands.

On a full day game drive, we watched at first from a distance as a group of elephants in the open grasslands walked towards us. They were females with young, occasionally they would use their front legs to kick and uproot smaller plants before picking them up with their trunks. They slowly walked past our vehicle through the vast lamai plains and headed towards the river to quench their thirst.

Reporting Date: 31.10.2012

The short rains have finally showed up making the lush mara plains look nice and green with lots of beautiful flowers popping up.

Ferdinand and his guests were on a chilly half-day game drive and found some of the roads to be difficult to drive on due to the heavy rains. Lucky enough as they were driving around they came across a pride of five lions feeding on a wildebeest carcass. As they watched them feed they noticed that there was nothing much left but the lions continued feeding.

Lions live in big prides and need to kill quite often so that they can be well fed.

Reporting Date: 28.10.2012

Japeth and his guests came across two lionesses feeding on a wildebeest carcass in the middle of a grassy plain as they were driving towards mara river. Japeth and his guests took time and watched them feed and after having their fill one of lioness started dragging the remaining carcass to some near-by bushes but it seemed too heavy for her cause she kept putting it down after a short distance.

Lions tend to hide their prey under thickets so as to avoid attracting unwanted attention from hyenas and vultures.

Reporting Date: 26.10.2012

Lioness can have upto four cubs after a gestation period of close to 100 days. Ranger Peter and his guests came across a lioness and two three month old cubs with a fresh wildebeest carcass. Peter's guests found it very interesting to see the mother make a small opening on the wildebeest carcass so that the cubs could feed.

Reporting Date: 26th october 2012

Crossing the river back home.

In the early hours of the morning today, hundreds of wildebeests that were grazing on the Lamai plains some  few days ago after leaving the Mara decided to cross the river back  into  the interior of Serengeti.  A few zebras also accompanied them but as usual were so cautious. The crossing was dramatic in that there was a rocky island in the middle of the river which they headed straight for. Because their hooves were wet, they kept on sliding on the rocks and back into the waters. As a result, they disturbed the hippos that were in a nearby pool which grunted heavily while chasing them  away. Clouds of dust were blowing up on the side of the river that they were entering in.

Reporting Date: 24.10.2012

Ranger John and his three guests were having a nice game drive seeing lots of different animals all over the mara plains. As they were driving along Talek river John spotted a wildebeest carcass hidden under some croton bushes. He went closer to investigate who had made the kill and to everyones suprise it was a huge male Leopard enjoying some wildebeest stake! The Leopard was not shy at all and they watched him for over 30 minutes before moving on.

Male Leopards can weigh upto 65kgs and can large prey like wildebeest, topi and hartebeest but prefer smaller prey so that they can drag them up the tree.