One last Safari

Camp Ol'Moran - Masai Mara

A few weeks ago we went on our last safari here in Kenya. We went with our friends Robb, Char and little Micah. We hadn't been to this camp before or part of the Mara. We decided to drive this time and see a different part.

We left early Saturday morning and had a driver come for us - he was our driver then for the whole time - in the park and back home again. His name was Patrick - I'm sad I don't think I have a picture of him. He was really good and his laugh pretty much made us all happy! :) This is the camp we stayed at. It was quite a bit smaller than what we had before. It had 12 tents total.

We left home at 7:30 a.m and arrived roughly at 1:30 at the camp. We had lunch and a little rest, then were off on our first game drive. It was amazing - in just 2 1/2 hours we saw 3 of the Big 5 - lions, buffalo, elephants, plus, giraffe and others. It was a good start.

Here is a picture of a safari van that got off the main path and got stuck - that can be kind of be a bit scary...it was kind of neat how many other safari drivers heard he was stuck over the radio, so many went to help push and pull him out.

Here we all are in our vehicle.

Little Micah enjoyed sitting up on the seat looking out.

As well as big Micah :)

These 2 pictures top and bottom are quite funny. All the drivers have radios, and when any of them see something special, they tell the others and soon you have a traffic jam in the middle of no where!

Sunday morning we left about 7:30 a.m. for an all day game drive - we had a picnic lunch under a tree with the wildebeast coming up the hill behind us. This was just at the end of the wildebeast and zebra migration. So we saw many of them yet that hadn't crossed over the river for some reason. We arrived back at camp around 4:30 and it had started to rain. It was a long day - but got to see alot of great animals.

I love this picture above - looks like you could just pet him! :)

Another few pictures of the vehicles coming to see something awesome!

Monday we went out early at 6:30 for one last quick game drive. We thought since it had rained we'd see alot of animals out. We didn't have much luck for some reason - and didn't end up seeing much.We got back to camp about 8:45 a.m. had breakfast, packed up and headed back to Nairobi. It was a great get-a-way and just so special to see so many animals up close and also the Mara itself.