Day 3 GFC Expedition
After an assisted good nights sleep i woke up to see elephants arriving…talk about being thrilled…if i could i would have done summersaults…after watching them for a while it was time to get myself together and prepare to leave the beautiful Mt Kenya and Mountain Lodge that brought back such memories of childhood visits. Amazed and impressed by development of infrastructure on our journey today and how devolution has indeed caused towns to grow with everything suddenly available. As we descended the mountain through mist and cloud the beauty of the countryside was striking. At the Equator we made a mandatory stop to see the water demonstration of water flowing clockwise and anti clockwise in the two different hemisphere’s and straight down at the Equator always a hit. The road rose up through the wheat fields increasingly being replaced by green houses until after Timau where we began our descent into Isiolo..my goodness could this really be Isiolo it has really urbanised ..no more barrier just beautifully paved road until our turn off to Shaba!! In no time at all we had arrived at Sarova Shaba where cold eucalyptus filled towels awaited us to help us cool down and a sumptuous buffet lunch!!An evening game drive in this extraordinarily beautiful park showed work has been done much to my delight ..there are more roads to do game viewing on and we were able to see the majestic grevy zebra, reticulated giraffe and a myriad of waterbuck with lots of babies. Tracks on the road were evidence of a mother lion and her cubs although sadly we didn’t get to see them. Finally we found a very thin baby gravy zebra with a vehicle of rangers alongside her , they told us that her mother died and they were prepare to catch the foal and take her to where she would be revived and taken care of !!! A lovely evening in NFD
