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Tales of a Nature Lover: wildlife dramas unfolding daily around our home in the Kenyan wilderness: the challenges and delights of a woman living in the middle of nowhere, with only elephants, crocodiles and hippos for neighbours...
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6th September 2008 : Big Game Bonanza
Weather-wise, July and August were dull, grey months, but extremely windy and very dry. The land is already like parchment and now with the intense September heat settling in for the duration, it's ge...
15th July 2008 : Winners & Losers
OK, shout and scream and tell me I’m hopeless…I apologize for my silence, but work has been far too hectic and I haven’t had a chance to get writing. Now a lot of catching up is [once again] ove...
15th June 2008 : Big Game Week
I am SO behind….just got back from spending over a week in Nairobi for work…and still need to catch up on a host of stories from before I left…. The week before we left for Nairobi was quite ex...
21st May 2008 : Homecoming
How changed is our river: the view upstreamClick any image to enlarge Looking downstream from the house What a feeling it was, having arrived home after dark on Saturday (to the nighttim...
20th May 2008 : Playing Catch-Up
Via Nairobi, London, New York, Nova Scotia, New York (again), London (again), Birmingham, Leeds, Scotland, London (yet again) and Nairobi (again), Ian and I are finally back home at Kulafumbi, over...
29th March 2008 : Of Hippos and Thieves...
Raided beehivesClick any image to enlarge Completely destroyed... Wasted honeycomb... I’ll start with the bad news. Over the full moon, which fell on the Easter weekend, our beehives ...
25th March 2008 : And with a mighty roar, down came the flood...
Hippos are strange, unpredictable creatures. It was 8.15 last Thursday morning, and just as we were finishing breakfast, already sweating in the wake of another stiflingly hot day, a hippo emerged fro...
12th March 2008 : Big Game, Tiny Chicks & Wind Storms
It is unbelievably HOT here at the moment. Yesterday we had a freak rain storm in the afternoon. There’s no accounting for the weather these days. This evening we had the most incredible winds you c...
21st February 2008 : Cheetah for Breakfast
8.15am it was, and we were sitting on the balcony having breakfast when – blow me down with a feather – a Cheetah walked out onto the beach near our well, down to the left of the house! It spent a...
15th February 2008 : Pelicans Briefly...
Yesterday morning, I arose somewhat bleary eyed (as per usual) and wandered out onto our balcony overlooking the river. My attention was caught by some large white birds further upstream, which lo...
13th February 2008 : Time flies, alongside pilots counting elephants...
Where has all the time gone? I can’t believe that it’s already more than two weeks since I last updated this journal, and now I have an overwhelming amount to catch up on, not least to record the ...
22nd January 2008 : Snakes & Lizards
It was a snake day today – as I nipped outside to photograph this big crocodile who looked in total ecstacy sunning himself on one of the sandbanks below our balcony, I almost trod on a Speckle...
21st January 2008
Today was the most extraordinary day: perfect temperature, cool (for this part of the world anyway) but sunny, clear and dry, with a freshness in the air. The river was already fairly high at midday....
9th January 2008
Yesterday, we went for sundowners with our friends on this beautiful great big rock on the edge of the Yatta Plateau. It meant crossing the Athi River which can be tricky. There is a rudimentary concr...
1st January 2008
It’s not an easy New Year for Kenya. The country, which went to the polls to elect a new Parliament and a new President on 27th December, has been plunged into post-election violence amid claim...
31st December 2007
The end of 2007 already! How quickly this year has gone, and yet, when looking back, how much has happened…moving back to Kenya from Scotland, getting married, settling into Kulafumbi… Christmas ...