Lake Nakuru, Lion Hill Game Lodge - Tuesday, June 7th

We left Samburu, after only one night, because we were traveling with the founder of GNU Foundation, James Sempre, and he planned to see the thousands of Flamingo's at the Lake Nakuru National Park "The bird watchers paradise" in the greater Riff Valley.  

BTW we spent this evening and tomorrow evening in the lovely Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge

Well it turns out that we saw maybe 3 flamingo's.  We were curious as to why, was it the right time and season?  Actually January and February are the best time as it is the dry/hot season. With higher levels precipitation it decreases the alkalinity and there is less algae for the flamingo's to eat.  So the lake water was too high! We did see ducks, pelican's and other birds but not the masses of flamingo Jim had hoped to see. 

We did see something we had never seen before, even when we went to Botswana.....we saw the Lake Nakuru rhinoceros.

Of course we saw zebra.  But we noticed that a lot of different animals had either babies or rather young ones. 

Here are a few more of the birds we saw and some other photo's.

These are Vervet Monkeys

 James the founder of GNU Foundation and our drive Ben - Jim has Ben's machete at Lake Nakuru

The baboons looking and waiting for an opportunity to jump into our vehicle to get food!

You might be able to notice that these Rothschild's giraffe's are different from the Reticulated giraffe's (Rothschild resemble Masai giraffes) 

Can you see the difference?

Sunset on a wonderful day in Lake Nakuru National Park