All I Want for Christmas is a Hippopotamus!!

Lake Naivasha and Nakuru National Park were absolutely amazing...a lake full of hippos and a park full of beautiful bright pink flamingos lining Nakuru's lake!! Breath-taking absolutely breathtaking!!! My first sighting of a solo hippo among a flock of pelicans was unbelieveable!! He looked like a big grey rock amongst all these white long-billed pelicans!! Driving further through the park we spotted buffalo, antelope, white rhinos (babies and mama), giraffes (sorry Michelle I just couldn't maneuver it's neck enough to fit in my bag for Lexie ;) ), a family of baboons, one hyrax and an orange-headed and blue-bodied lizard!! The viewpoint where we had lunch was too great a sight to capture it's intensity. Nakuru was really beautiful!

Lake Naivasha was full of hippos! My friend Kelly and I were the only two to take advantage of a boat hire and ride out to Crescent Island! A lake full of hippos and one flying hippo!! We were mulling along in the boat and all of sudden about 50ft away a hippo comes leaping out of the water!! The sight was priceless!!! On Crescent Island I had the opportunity to walk without a guide and spot animals, some of which were fish-eagles, giraffes, wildebeest, zebras and antelopes! That was a bit intimidating...looking through my lens and seeing a wildebeest staring back at me...YIKES!!! That was definitely another highlight of this fantastic once in a lifetime trip!!!

To all of you who have been posting on and reading my blog...THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm really happy to know you are enjoying my travels and coming along for this amazing journey with me! I think of all of you often!!!