Ol Jogi

I arrived at Ol Jogi with the Weller's after a long and sweaty 4 hour car journey. Having had only 2 hours sleep,I wasn't on the greatest of form, so I decided to nap for the afternoon, in time to go on a game drive in the evening. We had a really exciting game drove, seeing elephant, zebra, impala, grant, dik dik, giraffe, and many many baboon. It wasa great introduction to the reserve, and the amazing landscape it has to offer. With mount Kenya on the backdrop, and these immense boulders scattered around, it was a beautiful evening.
The next day, we all went on an early morning riding safari for a couple of hours. At first, I was a bit incapable to say the least, but when we got going, it ewas amazing fun. Being so close to the wildlife was an incredible experience. They have around ten horses here altogether which allows us all to go riding, including the two children, Carolyn and Sam. We then went fishing in the dam, infested with hippos, where we caught around 50 tilapas (appalling spelling...) I'm around 40 mins. You literally dipped your rod into the water, and a fish caught on in seconds. This therefore meant that the evening consisted of de-scaling and gutting the fish! Yummy.
The next day wasn't quite as exciting, but another family ,the Grants, arrived. They have two tiny boys with a mother, who used to live in arusha with the Weller's years ago. The excitement of the day came in the evening when we had sundowners on a rock, looking over the game reserve, followed by another evening game reserve.
Today was a bit more eventful, as we went on a house and trap ride for an hour or so, swing elephant and many grants and impala. We had a huge station called Robin pulling us alone, who was stupidly strong, pulling 6 of us! We then had a nice relaxing day, putting up tents for the kids, and for the evening e went to the river and have tea and biscuits whilst the kids jumped around in the mud and river. We were down there for hours, and on the way back we saw buffalo, giraffe, gerineck, Cory bustards and grant. You name it!

All for now friends,

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