Sunday, June 12, 2011

Day 6: A wild encounter


The first Saturday in Kenya and Chelsey and I are headed into the wilderness. Ol Pedjita conservancy an hour from Nanyuki town. Being in a bright red X-Trail has proved to e somewhat amusing. Like in Spain the bull, in a heft of fury slammed his angered body toward a small red cloth. Did I mention we had a big red X-trail and we were headed into high-density buffalo, black rhino and elephant terrain? I, as the driver, was on full alert! The conservancy has a captive blink black rhino, Baraka. He was nearly killed in a hierarchal battle with another dominant male. He can’t survive without the help of humans.  We fed Baraka with our human hand; his prehistoric mouth enjoyed every bite. On the same land we saw, in the distance, a cheetah with two cubs and a fresh kill. On our way out of the reserve a lioness popped her perfectly chiseled head out of the nearby shrubbery and used the road around our car as a catwalk.

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