please read the latest from Kicheche camp....who said that Kenya has no game out of season...?!
"Even in the Mara it is rare to be perming from such riches, as this week's SOW vies with even the most potent editions from the migration months. Appropriately they both involve guests that have racked up at least a dozen visits in the last five years. It is touching the ownership people feel towards certain species, normally cats. Few have elicited such affection as Zawadi, the fabled leopard of countless TV serials and one burnished onto a thousand memory cards. She had not been seen for almost a year and many were fearing for this old girl. Not Jonathan. In her youth she was often seen at Leopard Gorge, the granite gorge empirically designed for spotting cats. In the last few years this rocky dwelling has been usurped first by lions and more recently by hyenas, however conceding bragging rights to its original title last week an early foray not only conjured up Zawadi, the parallel line of spots under her right eye make her unmistakeable, but also a four month old cub, apparently one of two. Two months ago the legendary Amani returned to her adolescent territory now the return of this prodigal daughter. This would normally be worthy of any SOW but yet again the young turks in Laikipia have trumped a cat as famous as this one.
Mid morning Mike was enjoying a sumptuous morning with a female white rhino and her six month old calf when all hell broke loose. Three hungry lionesses' broke up the ruminants party and tried to split the youngster from its mother. For 90 minutes the mother blundered after them with all the finesse of a government bail out package and the moment one lion retreated from this onslaught, the others would close in on the smaller quarry, forcing the mother to abandon her charge and return to police her calf. Eventually the lions backed off, perhaps settling for an easier hors d'oevre elsewhere than a gluttonous a la carte. Mike and his two guests, Dorothy and Bob returned to camp in complete silence, stunned by the morning's proceedings. You decide which is more worthy of this week's award, but we think Laikipia .... by a cat's whisker."
please drop us a line on 020 7471 8780 or go to the web site at www.kenyaodyssey.com for more information......go to Kenya!!!
"Even in the Mara it is rare to be perming from such riches, as this week's SOW vies with even the most potent editions from the migration months. Appropriately they both involve guests that have racked up at least a dozen visits in the last five years. It is touching the ownership people feel towards certain species, normally cats. Few have elicited such affection as Zawadi, the fabled leopard of countless TV serials and one burnished onto a thousand memory cards. She had not been seen for almost a year and many were fearing for this old girl. Not Jonathan. In her youth she was often seen at Leopard Gorge, the granite gorge empirically designed for spotting cats. In the last few years this rocky dwelling has been usurped first by lions and more recently by hyenas, however conceding bragging rights to its original title last week an early foray not only conjured up Zawadi, the parallel line of spots under her right eye make her unmistakeable, but also a four month old cub, apparently one of two. Two months ago the legendary Amani returned to her adolescent territory now the return of this prodigal daughter. This would normally be worthy of any SOW but yet again the young turks in Laikipia have trumped a cat as famous as this one.
Mid morning Mike was enjoying a sumptuous morning with a female white rhino and her six month old calf when all hell broke loose. Three hungry lionesses' broke up the ruminants party and tried to split the youngster from its mother. For 90 minutes the mother blundered after them with all the finesse of a government bail out package and the moment one lion retreated from this onslaught, the others would close in on the smaller quarry, forcing the mother to abandon her charge and return to police her calf. Eventually the lions backed off, perhaps settling for an easier hors d'oevre elsewhere than a gluttonous a la carte. Mike and his two guests, Dorothy and Bob returned to camp in complete silence, stunned by the morning's proceedings. You decide which is more worthy of this week's award, but we think Laikipia .... by a cat's whisker."
please drop us a line on 020 7471 8780 or go to the web site at www.kenyaodyssey.com for more information......go to Kenya!!!
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