William called today a “late start” at 7.30am. We left Lion Hill Lodge and spent an hour or so on our last safari drive to the Reserve exit. There was nothing to add to our list of sightings, we have certainly achieved all our dreams.
We headed south east towards Nairobi and stopped off at Lake Naivasha where we took a small boat out to an island. It’s the one where they filmed for the movie “Out of Africa”. They brought in the zebra, wildebeest, giraffes and more just to make the movie, and the animals are still there. You can walk around amongst them. The bird life on the lake is great to watch. We saw a kingfisher dive in and catch a fish, the try to swallow it. There were some hippos wallowing in the shallows, and I was glad we didn’t run into a submerged one.
We saw a baby wildebeest:

As well as a baby zebra:

And this cute giraffe:

And they were all up close and personal. Ferg said he was really happy to do the walk with the animals.

We drove on through the Rift Valley where the world’s best marathon runners are bred, and the mist turned to smog as we got closer to the big smoke.
We have arrived at the hotel in Nairobi where we stay tonight before the long trek home. The hotel is adjacent to the Nairobi National Reserve, right in the city. We can’t see any animals because it is the season of plenty, and they are way out of view feasting on the plains.