Kenyan Safari - September 2011 - It's All About The Animals Photo Gallery by Rene Little at pbase.com

Kenyan Safari - September 2011 - It's All About The Animals

Our 10 day safari in Kenya was a fabulous experience and is one of the best holidays we've had. Seeing these stunning animals in the wild is truly an awesome experience and one I hope to repeat in the not too distant future.

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Leaving Juba 11 Sep 2011	Karen Blixen's House - Out of Africa fame 13 Sep 2011	Dave inspecting the old equipment	Trying to start the old equipment
Standing outside Karen Blixen's house	Dave on the verandah	Menu at Carnevors	Carnevors Restaurant 13 Sep 2011
Getting ready to eat some crocodile	Dave at the table at Carnevors Restaurant	Dave being forked	Meat cooking
One of the waiters inspecting the meat	Crossing the equator 14 Sep 2011	Sweetwaters Tented Camp entrance 14 Sep 2011	Sweetwaters Sign
Dave in front of our tent at Sweetwaters Tented Camp 14 Sep 2011	Views from the tent	Outside the tent	Views from the Sweetwaters Restaurant
Me taking photos of the giraffe	Playing tourist in front of the giraffes 14 Sep 2011	Taken from outside the Sweetwaters restaurant	Group of giraffes 14 Sep 2011
My its hard getting down there	<<<<>>>>	Starling 14 Sep 2011	Eating is hard when you've got such long legs
Animals around the water hole 14 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Giraffe and Impala
Animals around the water hole 14 Sep 2011	Mirror image, well sort of	Can't have enough photos of giraffes 14 Sep 11	Marabou Stork
Beautiful garden at Sweetwaters Tented Camp	Beautiful Bougainvillea	Beautiful Bougainvillea	Inside the tent
All the comforts of home, a hot water bottle in the bed	Bathroom in the tent	Impala	First of many shots of elephants 14 Sep 2011
Elephant eating 14 Sep 11	Waterbuck and baboons 14 Sep 2011	Waterbuck 14 Sep 2011	Baboon
Waterbuck 14 Sep 2011	Fight is on thankfully it didn't amount to much	Male Impala with his harem 14 Sep 2011	Harem 14 Sep 2011
Male impala	Our first sighting of lions 14 Sep 2011	Our first sighting of lions 14 Sep 2011	Our first sighting of lions 14 Sep 2011
Buffalo 14 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Dare I say it - "Zebra Crossing"!!	Zebras grazing
14 September, 2011	<<<<>>>>	Baboon drinking	Babboons everywhere 14 Sep 2011
Hitching a ride	Traumatized chimpanzee at the Jane Goodall Sanctuary 14 Sep 11	These chimpanzees have been saved from years of mistreatment	Sad eyes
Traumatized chimpanzee at the Jane Goodall Sanctuary	Talking to the ranger about the chimps they are so beautiful but have been so badly treated before coming to the sanctuary	Protected rhino without horns 14 Sep 2011	He loves the attention and the food given to him
Feeding and patting the rhino 14 Sep 2011	A sign for the elephants	Mt Kenya at sunrise 15 Sep 2011	Mt Kenya at sunrise 15 Sep 2011
Tents on stilts 15 Sep 2011	Dave	Leaving Sweetwaters 15 September, 2011	Our guide buying cabbages along the roadside 15 September, 2011
Entrance to the Shaba Game Reserve 15 September, 2011	Village near lodge 15 Sep 2011	Oryx 15 Sep 2011	Adult and young giraffes
Young giraffe 15 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Little giraffe	<<<<>>>>
Grevey Zebra	You can identify the Grevey Zebra by their white stomach	Zebras don't mind cars	Samburu Hills
Rugged hills	Dave and I in our van 16 Sep 2011	Our driver David	Entrance to Shaba Game Lodge 15 Sep 2011
25b Shaba Game Lodge 15 Sep 2011.jpg	Views from our room	Hotel grounds	<<<<>>>>
Hotel entrance	Big old tree in the grounds 16 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Hotel reception area
Hotel grounds 16 Sep 2011	Permanent residents of the hotel	One tree two trunks 16 Sep 2011	Using a sling shot to scare the monkeys away fortunately they don't hit many
Dressed as a Masai Warrier	Playing tourist 16 Sep 2011	First closeup glimpse of a lioness	First closeup glimpse of a lioness 16 Sep 2011
It was wonderful being so close	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Gerenuk or Giraffe Gazelle 16 Sep 11
Elephants in the wild 16 Sep 11	<<<<>>>>	Young elephant 16 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>
Up close and personal	On the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River 16 Sep 11	Lunch	Crocodiles on the banks of the river 16 Sep 11
Mouth open ready to start munching	One of many crocodiles sunning by the river	We counted 10 crocs on the river bank 16 Sep 2011	Beautiful blue starling 16 Sep 11.
Grey-headed Kingfisher	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Red-billed hornbill 16 Sep 11
<<<<>>>>	That looks like a nice morsel	Gerenuk or Giraffe Gazelle	Elephant skull
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	The very elusive Dik-Dik	Gazelle and baby 16 Sep 2011
Gazelle and baby 16 Sep 2011	Baby gazelle	We're being watched 16 Sep 2011	On the run
Giraffes feeding in the Samburu Game Reserve 16 Sep 11	Termite mound 16 Sep 2011	Dave and Rene 16 Sep 2011	Samburu Game Reserve
Herd of Grant's Gazelles and Oryx 16 Sep 11	Leaving the game reserve	Dave talking to the monkey 16 Sep 2011	Vervet monkey perched on a tree
Unhappy Vervet momkey 16 Sep 2011	Our barmaid at the Shaba Game Lodge	Waitress in restaurant of Shaba Lodge 16 Sep 11	Croc on left stork on right of photo 17 Sep 11
Dining area	Hotel grounds 17 Sep 2011	Lizard on the river bank 17 Sep 2011	Now theres two
Mt Kenya in the distance 17 Sep 2011	Treetops Outreach Hotel 17 Sep 2011	Hotel grounds	Peacocks wandering around the grounds
Relaxing after lunch	Robert Baden-Powell Museum	Robert Baden-Powell Museum	Baden-Powell spent his last years in this house
Treetops Lodge 17 Sep 11	In our small small room 17 Sep 11	View from our hotel room window 17 Sep 2011	Warthogs visiting the water hole 17 Sep 2011
Elephant visiting the watering hole at Treetops	The elephant is eating a pink power which is apparently full of vitamins	Taken under flood lights elephants interacting 17 Sep	Mother and baby 17 Sep 11
Elephants interacting around the water hole	Elephants and a rhino around the water hole	Elephants and a rhino around the water hole	Black Rhino 17 Sep 2011
<<<<>>>>	Sightings for the night 17 Sep 2011	Water hole very early morning in the mist 18 Sep 2011	Thompson's Falls
Thompsons Falls 18 Sep 2011	Holding a couple of Chameleons	Dave playing tourist 18 Sep 2011	Dave playing tourist at Thompson's Falls 18 Sep 11
Playing tourist at Thompson's Falls	Rift Valley in Kenya	<<<<>>>>	Rift Vally 18 Sep 2011
Rift Valley	Lion Hill Lodge sign 18 Sep 2011	Birds building their upside down nests 18 Sep 11	Gardens of the Lionhill Game Lodge Nakuru
Birds in the hotel grounds	Leaving our cottage for a little game hunting with the camera of course	Entrance to Lake Nakuru	Sign for Lake Nakuru
One of the vans got bogged so none could move	Beautiful scenery 18 Sep 2011	Pelicans swimming	Buffalo grazing and resting 18 Sep 2011
Flamingos at Lake Nakuru	Pelicans at Lake Nakuru 18 Sep 2011	Flamingos and Pelicans	Thousands of pelicans 18 Sep 2011
Pelicans preening 18 Sep 2011	Flamingos at Lake Nakuru 18 Sep 2011	Flamingos taken very late afternoon	Flamingos 18 Sep 2011
<<<<>>>>	Pelicans resting	Coming in for a landing	Landing
Landed	Flying high 18 Sep 2011	Young pelicans standing with adults	Pelicans getting ready to dive for food
Pelicans diving for food	Buffalo Zebras and Pelicans	African Hammerkopf 18 Sep 2011	Rhinos, buffalo and zebras at Lake Nakuru
Rhinos grazing at Lake Nakuru	Black Rhino 18 Sep 2011	Lions on the move 18 Sep 2011	Lions on the move
<<<<>>>>	Resting	Boats for cruising Lake Navaisha 19 Sep 2011	Giraffe wading through the water Lake Naivasha
Giraffe feeding in Lake Naivasha 19 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
In the boat on Lake Naivasha	Hippos in Lake Naivasha 19 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Sleeping peacefully
Hippos in Lake Naivasha	White breasted cormorant Lake Naivasha 19 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	White Breasted Cormorant
Pelicans on the banks of the Naivasha River	Giraffe wading through the water of Lake Naivasha	<<<<>>>>	These giraffe photos were taken facing into the sun so they're a little overexposed
Hippo amongst the cormorants	Giraffe and tourists	Eagle in the tree 19 Sep 2011	Eagle swooping to catch a fish
Success he got his fish	Giraffe walking amongst the pelicans	Standing in front of the Wildebeest	Playing tourist 19 Sep 2011
Beautiful Starling 19 Sep 2011	Wildebeest grazing 19 Sep 2011	Wildebeest on a Lake Naivasha island	Wildebeest
<<<<>>>>	Waterbuck grazing on the Naivasha River island	<<<<>>>>	Wildebeest on the run
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Giffaffe on the run; I dont know what caused the animals to run	Cormorant 19 Sep 2011
Technology in rural Kenya 19 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Keekorok Loge in the Masai Mara 19 Sep 11	<<<<>>>>
<<<<>>>>	Room decorations	View from the porch	Keekorok Lodge our last hotel for the trip
Feet up after lunch before another game drive	Wildebeest migration 19 Sep 2011	Going at a steady pace no hurry	Secretary bird because it make a sound like a typewriter
Lion having an afternoon nap	Sprung	<<<<>>>>	Wildebeest and Eland
Wildebeest and Eland	<<<<>>>>	Eland largest of the African antelopes	Wildebeest and Eland
Buffalo 19 Sep 2011	Our first sighting of a leopard 19 Sep 2011	He has his paw across his face	Elephant in the Masai Mara 19 Sep 2011
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Mother and baby 19 Sep 2011	Herd of elephants enjoying the water hole
The starting of it all	Getting there	Blurry but you get the picture	Sunset at the Masai Mara 19 Sep 2011
Finished for the day time for dinner	Rhino at the hotels water hole	Taken under floodlighting conditions	Stork eating 20 Sep 2011
Remains	Saddle-Billed Stork in the Masai Mara	African bird 20 Sep 2011	Vulture
Vulture guarding its food 20 Sep 2011	Vulture and stork eating	The vulture is giving the stork a dirty look	On the attack
African Ground Hornbill 20 Sep 2011	Mother and her new born 20 Sep 2011	Snuggling up to mum	Snuggling up to mum 20 Sep 2011
Caught taking their photo	So cute	Camera always works better with the sun behind you	Baby giraffe being very accommodating by looking straight at the camera
Wildebeest on the run 20 Sep 2011	Wildebeest on the run	Vultures on the move	Little lion cub 20 Sep 2011
Lioness and her cubs 20 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Eagle protecting his food	Eagle eating his food
Both eagle and vulture staking a claim	Vulture now guarding the food	Vulture 20 Sep 2011	3 Hyenas 20 Sep 2011
Young hyena	I didn't realize these little guys were so cute	Young Hyena 20 Sep 11	Hyena in profile
Elephants at a watering hole 20 Sep 2011	Young elephant drinking	Elephants drinking water	<<<<>>>>
Wildebeest herd 20 Sep 2011	Wildebeest herd	Zebras and Wildebeest	Red Hartbeest
Red Hartbeest	Zebras and Wildebeest on the African plains	Zebras and Wildebeest	Zebras on the move
Sleepy lion 20 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	Sound asleep	The eyes are just starting to open
Fully alert now	The Zebras were alert to being only about 30 metres from the lion	Hippos keeping cool 20 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>
Mother and baby hippos	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
Hippos lying around	<<<<>>>>	Crocodile amongst the birds	Giraffes on the horizon
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Making whoopee	Lioness
Lioness cleaning herself 20 Sep 2011	Rene in the Masai Mara 20 Sep 2011	Dave looking at the Wilderbeest	Wildebeest are dotted all over the African plains
<<<<>>>>	slowly slowly on the move	Animal spotting 20 Sep 2011	Wildebeest 20 Sep 2011
Wildebeest and Zebra Migration in Kenya 2011	<<<<>>>>	Starling	Very young African antelope
Green tree snake we almost walked over	Keekorok Lodge restaurant 20 Sep 2011	Lion enjoying the sunshine	Three cheetahs near the airfield
<<<<>>>>	The roar of the plan didn't disturb the cheetahs at all	Cheetah at dusk 20 Sep 11	<<<<>>>>
Red Hartbeest and baby 20 Sep 2011	Look I can stand on 2 legs	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
Hartbeest 20 Sep 2011	Cheetahs looking at their dinner	Cheetahs looking at their dinner	Sunset the end of a long wonderful day 20 Sep 11
Wildebeest on the move early morning 21 Sep 2011	Tourist balloons at dawn 21 Sep 2011	A couple of jackels	Jackel
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Hyena early morning 21 Sep 2011	Lioness early morning
Lion early morning	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
Rhinoceros and baby 21 Sep 2011	Black Rhinoceros 21 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
Rhinoceros with a bird perched on his back	<<<<>>>>	A rhino passing our van 21 Sep 2011	possibly a better option than 1st
One of the many African birds we came across	Herd of elephants 21 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	African elephant
Lioness having breakfast 21 Sep 2011	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Breakfast 21 Sep 2011
Now its the mans turn to have breakfast	<<<<>>>>	97g Vulture guarding his breakfast 21 Sep 2011.jpg	Vulture eating the Wildebeest
Zebras drinking at the water hole	A perfect row of Zebras	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
View of the watering hole bar at the Keekoroc Lodge 21 Sep 2011	Checking the photo I had just taken of the hippos	The photo	Monkeys outside our cottage at Keekoroc Lodge
Baby feeding	Vervet monkey and baby 21 Sep 11	Monkey trying to get into our room 21 Sep 2011	This is my chair not yours
Walking past our cottage 21 Sep 2011	These monkeys are so interesting to photograph	Baby wondering what species of monkey is taking this p	Inquisitive baby 21 Sep 2011
Vervet monkey peeking in our window	Something has caught his eye	Something has really interested him now	The little one being groomed by his mother
Colourful dress of the Masai people	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Buffalo and hippos at the lodges watering hole
Open wide	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Cheetahs in the bushes just outside Keekoroc Lodge
1st Cheetah 21 Sep 2011	2nd Cheetah	Our thrid Cheetah in less than 30 minutes	Cheetah looking at his prey
The prey.	<<<<>>>>	Driving to the Tanzania border 21 Sep 2011	Driving towards the Tanzania border
<<<<>>>>	Border crossing into Tanzania 21 Sep 2011	Border Crossing	Crossing the Sand River into Tanzania
Sand River is roughly the border between Kenya and Tanzania	Sand River 21 Sep 2011	Looking into Kenya	Very dry river
Now were back in Kenya	Buffalo posing for the camera	<<<<>>>>	Bit of a stretch 21 Sep 11
Impala 21 Sep 2011	Posing for the camera	<<<<>>>>	Red Headed Agana Lizard
David our driver	Candid shot doing the photographic thing	Our lucky day for Cheetahs 21 Sep 2011	A herd of Hartbeests
Guarding the food	Another Cheetah joining in for a feed	<<<<>>>>	Cheetahs enjoying their kill
<<<<>>>>	Cheetah 21 Sep 2011	Hippos in the watering hole at the Keekoroc Lodge	Hippos connecting
Open wide	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Getting out of the water for the nightly feed
<<<<>>>>	Hippos graze at night	This buffalo lives at the watering hole at Keekoroc Lodge	Baby hippo annoying the buffalo, he eventually was given a kick by the buffalo
Wildebeest on the move 22 Sep 11	Leopard hanging in a tree 22 Sep 2011	What a wonderful way to end the safari by seeing a Leopard	<<<<>>>>
The last morning of the safari and we saw this wonderful Leopard, how lucky are we!!	Lions walking up to the van 22 Sep 2011	The last lion walking by the van	We saw these lions as we were leaving for Nairobi
How lucky are we, we not only saw a Leopard on our last day, but these Lions as well	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Amazingly close to the van
A wonderful sighting on our last day.jpg	The white in the photo is the top of our car that's how close the lions came to us	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>
Elephants, Zebras Wildebeests and Gazelle	<<<<>>>>	<<<<>>>>	Warthog standing his ground
Posing for the camera, what a ham :-)	Leaving the Game Wilderness	Two local women 22 September, 2011