Last post, I stupidly forgot a pretty awesome moment. As we were coming back from seeing the elephant family, we stopped off at one of the dams to let the dogs out, when we suddenly saw a lone hyena drinking from the dam, which also had a hippo in it! #justanotherdayinkenya
Yesterday, we started the day off with a 2 hour morning ride with johnny and the kids. It was so so tiring, as we trotted a lot of the way, and my horse was being very naughty, wanting too much of the reign. I eventually worked out how to speed him up (Cowboy), but this was in the last couple of minutes. We bumped into a few giraffe and grevys zebra on our ride, as well as 2 buffalo lurking in the bushes about 10 metres away from us. Very exciting.
We then went on another drive around the boundary, and saw very little, other than some gombies (cows) drinking from the river where we were. We then went to see if anything was lurking around one of the many dams, and we found these 2 male giraffe in a stand off. We stopped the car to see if anything was going to happen, for there to eventually be a fight between the two males in front of all the ladies. It was an amazing spectical, for me to get on video! They hit each other with their heads and necks, in a very awkward fashion, but it obviously does the job!
Finally, in the evening, we went for a spot of fishing in the same place we were earlier in my stay. On the drive to the dam, we saw this leopard on the road, which sprinted away as soon as it saw us. I am yet to see one up close, but I am told there are several around the place. Johnny was lucky enough to see one a metres away from his car, lying down in the shade, but sadly this was on his way back from work so we weren't there! So we went fishing, and caught another 25 or so, half of which we gave away to the staff, and whilst we were fishing, there were 5 hippo lurking 20 metres away from us in the water, which livened things up a bit. Johnny also had to wade in to recover Sam's line which was caught on a thorn bush in the dam. Safe to say, he wasn't amused! On the way back from our fishing trip, we bumped into a pack of wild dogs, which was super special, as they are very rarely seen in the wild in Kenya. They're amazing creature, which I had previously seen at the orphanage, but to see them in the wild was spectacular.
Now to today. There is a couple staying with the Weller's who are from Tanzania, originally from Australia, and he is very keen on cows, and so wanted to see some of the Ol Jogi cows, as well as Jackie's cows in the next door ranch. So we went to see them all being dipped this morning, which was both hilarious, and very messy! Sam and I were watching inside the dipping area, and got splashed many times by the cows jumping into the dipping pool. It was hilarious though. The idea of the dipping is to remove and disease and tits from the cows. We then went to look at these cacti which are invading the ranch, and johnny showed us how they are trying to contain the cacti by the white substance. This kills the plant off, but very slowly. This cactus has fruit growing from it, which the elephant and baboons love to eat, and when then digest it, and it comes out the other end, it is seeded into the ground. It is therefore everywhere in the ranch, and johnny and the team want to get rid of it asap!
All for now.
See ya tomorrow folks
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