Category: East Africa 2011

We stayed in a campground with no walls or fences – just this sign to keep us safe.

Male weavers, like this Speke’s Weaver, painstakingly stitch together nests in hopes of attracting a mate with their handiwork.

An olive baboon saunters across the road under an acacia tree.

We surprised this hippo by driving between it and its waterhole, and it responded with an incredible charge, bellowing and chomping its mouth as it ran towards us, spit flying all over.

While in a giant vehicle, I never was worried about the hippo going through with this attack, if you were on foot, this would be a terrifying way to die.  The hippo was very quick, and very menacing.

This was always my vision of Africa even before I had set foot on the continent – endless plains, acacia trees, and a giraffe strolling across.

Hyena in a hurry

A leopard high in a tree

I’ve seen quite a few amazing African sunsets, but this one has to rank up there among the very best.