Baby white rhino

Trip Start Jan 20, 2006
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Trip End Mar 24, 2006


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Thursday, February 2, 2006

Lake Nakuru is an alkaline soda lake in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. It's inhabited by thousands of flamingos, who graze on the pink shrimps that survive in the caustic water. The surrounding area is a National Park, containing white and black rhinos, leopards, baboons, vervet monkeys, zebra and buffalo. Over two game drives we saw all apart from the black rhinos and leopard, unfortunatley, although we made up for this with a highly amusing early morning encounter with a white rhino and her calf. The calf seemed to take offence at our presence, which is understandable as there were 30 white faces peering out of a giant green truck, and tried to express this by charging the truck. But he was only a couple of feet tall, and charging a truck the size of a double decker bus was pretty pointless. He realised this, I think, in mid-charge and would stop abruptly, buck and leap in the air and trot off back to his mum! He was so incredibly cute, particularly when, just before a 'charge', he would wiggle his little ears.....aahhhhhh!
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