Day 4 in Meru National Park with the Rooney/Kapples Family expedition
As always it seems the day dawns far too quicly and all too soon it is time to wake up!!!!! The singing of the birds signify the need to move faster or risk being late. Soon the sun like a fireball rose in the sky and then it was time to get ready after a spot of herbal tea brought by Martin!! Its Sunday and it is the 1st of the month and being surrounded by nature we feel that we are in Church!
We drove in a different direction today heading to the Mulika River and its swamp but before we got there we encountered to young male lions looking quite interested in eating although judging by their lack of actual efforts and the fullness of their bellies…perhaps they were looking for something for dessert!! Hippos played and honked in the pond beyond and waterbuck blissfully oblivious wandered about ..when a bull elephant emerged from the palm trees the lions were lying lower than the proverbial envelope,, the morning produced more lioness and a mother who clearly was nursing her cubs!! what a glorious morning it was …after lunch we sallied forth and lovely bull elephants in the river practising challenging one another and quenching their thirst after the heat of the day .what a magnificent park this is and its ecology is splendid
As the sun goes down on another day we feel happy and fortunate to be in Meru National Park and Elsa’s Kopje’s
Elewana who own Elsas’s Kopje have started a wonderful foundation….it involves participation from the guests….they support a school and health centre and they also create pods that contain seeds so guests can acquire these and scatter them about …not needing to dig holes!! Now imagine if all hoteliers were socially and environmentally conscious!!!
