Comments | unkbar: Out of Africa

unkbar

Out of Africa

Feb 25, 2007 17:47

We arrived home Friday from a two week safari (Swahili: "journey") in East Africa. Here are some random facts and thoughts about the trip,

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filkertom February 26 2007, 00:42:35 UTC

Sounds fantastic. Glad you're all home safe, too! :)

tigertoy February 26 2007, 04:02:04 UTC

I'm sitting here trying to convince myself that murdering you out of envy truly would do nothing to make me any happier. I'm pretty sure I'll have myself convinced before we achieve proximity. Wow, what a trip! (And with hbruton too! I'm sure the others are cool, but she's the only one I know.) I may be able to go on a trip to South Africa later this year (details still have to be worked out), and if I do I'll have some really intense experiences with cheetah, but I know I won't get anywhere near as much breadth as you describe.

I hope you can do a better job with processing your photos than I have been. I still haven't done anything to speak of with the 2500ish images I took in Minnesota last summer. I haven't even done anywhere near as much as I should with the similar sized batch from my trip to Ecuador two years ago. It's so much easier to take pictures than to prune the mass down to a sane number to share, to say nothing of cropping, enhancing, and preparing an image for serious rather than just snapshot printing.

unkbar February 26 2007, 12:18:21 UTC

Well, I hope the trip to South Africa works out for you. I was there on business last year and only had one day to do tourist things. (The rest of the trip was two weeks where I saw only my hotel and the radiology department at Pretoria Academic Hospital ( ... )

mbumby February 26 2007, 21:06:53 UTC

How cool! Glad it was a wonderful trip and that you-all made it home in one piece. Looking forward to seeing copies of the pix.

hrrunka April 3 2007, 12:09:41 UTC

Looks like you just about managed to miss the effects of the New Year flooding. Most of the Mara (well, a substantial part of the flood plain, anyway) was under water in January. Leopards are often hard to see. Some friends were on a holiday in Kenya taking in Samburu, Nakuru (BTW that's a "u" on the end, not an "a") and the Mara, and saw leopards in all three. They were exceedingly lucky. It's been years since I've seen a leopard in the wild despite visiting Kenya almost every year...