Tsavo Park Dec 22, 2009

Right at the park entrance the zebras were hanging out. I could almost have walked up and touched them. These are the kind of roads we traveled on... mostly. Sometimes they got narrower with thorn bushes on either side. Our traveling companion drove for the first time with the steering wheel on the right side. She didn't succeed in scraping Tom off, before she figured out how to guide for left hand drive.You see, the best way to see the animals is up high. So three of us sat on the window edge and the 4th drove.We saw a wide range of antelope. I think this is an impala.

Here we have impala and a Lesser Kudu-- with the striped body.These are the smallest of the antelope-- Kirks Dik Diks. Very cute. We only saw the giraffes at a distance.

At the river was this amazing Hippo and her baby... but we only saw the baby's nose.

These ostriches were enormous!

This baboon and baby were way cute. He about slipped off and climbed back on again.

This is a termite hill the baboons are sitting on... or next to.

This was our first view of an elephant. We were so excited! a big red mound above the brush. as the day progressed we saw lots of droppings and foot prints and eventually more elephants. Apparently there are over 15,000 elephants in Tsavo Parks.

I've been told there are red and gray elephants. I thought maybe the red ones had just rolled more in the red clay dirt.

It was an amazing and exhausting day. The weather was overcast so the heat was not as intense as it could have been. Two weeks ago, I understand the land was barren and brown. Then the rains came. Things green up quickly!