Africa @ the Millennium

      Safari photos

       Tarangire national park and Lake Manyara

Typical safari vehicles 

Hey what was that under the tree?!

Wild animals doing what they do best - turning away from us and grouping together.  They do this to protect themselves but it makes for a lot of side shots and backside shots.

Getting a little better...    

  The money shot!

  A two-headed giraffe 

  See anything in the grass?  We didn’t but Abu our guide saw this lioness with her zebra kill.

The beautiful Acacia tree

Tarangire National Park

Warthogs, my favourite.

Dik diks, one of the many deer-like animals we saw

  Monkey montage

Ngorongoro crater

Abu and I at the rim of this natural wonder of the world

The road into Ngorongoro crater

Buffalo  

  Wildebeest

  Zebras 

  A typical pastoral scene but these are zebras, wildebeest and deer

It's a zebra herd?

  Never thought I'd see flamingos in the wild  

  A hyena

Rhinos lounging 

 Lone warthog 

Simba - the only male lion I saw

The lionesses on the prowl – would you want one of these stalking you?

  No, these hyenas aren't dead just laying in the cool mud

Some of the beautiful birds we saw 

An artsy moment  

Leaving Ngorongoro crater

The Serengeti

Here we see the jackal fending off the vultures while it feeds on a carcass of a freshly killed animal.  Notice it is a pretty sizeable carcass – that will soon change.

The jackal has left so the vultures have descended.  These vultures do not have red heads that is blood from the kill.

As the vultures eat a hyena in the distance gets wind of the food.

The hyena circles

  The hyena moves in and runs off what little is left of the carcass.  

Masai village

 Unfortunately here you see the full effects of enlarging a small image to a larger one - graininess and lack of clarity. 

See the dark cave-like openings well that's what they are, there is a labyrinth of rooms in these muddy walls.

The end – hope you enjoyed it.