Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Lake Nakuru - Rhino and Hippo

We're on the trail out of Nakuru park, settling down for the journey back to Nairobi, when our driver again spots a couple of animals we hadn't believed we'd be lucky enough to see.

Firstly, rambling along the side of the road, munching its way through foliage as it went, was a Black Rhinoceros. There are less than 5000 black rhinos left in the wild, so to see one here is amazing.

The rhino watches us for a couple of minutes, then wanders away, nochalantly, carrying his bird buddy.


 


Our last find is a couple of hippopotamuses (no, hippopotami isn't the correct pluralisation). They are about thirty meters out in the water, and the sun is starting to set, making photographs very difficult to expose correctly. I do my best and get a reasonable shot of one of them.

3 comments:

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Kiran said...

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