Lake Nakuru

I'm not sure if ya'll know this but Will is back home now.  He had a meeting he had to attend to so he flew back home on Saturday.  Before he went back, we took a trip to Lake Nakuru.  The two main things Lake Nakuru is knows for is the thousands and Flamingos and the great Rhino population (both black and white rhinos).  

So we left Friday for Lake Nakuru with me driving.  Will doesn't like to drive and I really do.  So on the way there I got pulled over by the Kenyan Police.  Now, they don't have cars, they just have this metal spike strips they put in the road to slow you down and then they choose randomly who they are going to pull over.  Being 4 Mazungus (White Europeans) in a Nice Toyota, we were prime candidates for the ole shakedown.  According to the Policeman, I was doing 111 in a 100 zone.  For the mothers out there, that is Kilometers per Hr, not Miles.  I asked him how he knew how fast I was going when they were sitting still at the road block.  He said he had a radar gun just up the road.  Knowing good and well, they don't have a radar gun up the road.  My ticket, was written on a nice piece of torn paper from a notebook.  It just said 111 Red Pajero (which is our type of car).  So, I just stood there telling him No.  I wasn't paying him.  No, I wasn't speeding.  No, I'm not paying you. Until after about 10 minutes his superior just said to let me leave.   So I took my license back.  And left.

The first of a couple of videos on this blog is gonna be the flamingos.  Not the greatest video ever, we have some with the good video camera that won't upload.  Anyway, hopefully this video gets across the flamingo after flamingo after flamingo filled lake.....

This next video is a little montage.  It starts with Will and his "friend" Kim (I don't think they have defined their relationship just yet, but we like her).  Moves on to to a very touristy Masai dance they do for the guests at the Lodge.  And last but not least, Kim's first driving experience, punctuated by Will's dirty mouth.

One last video for you.  Just a nice close up (they are hard to get with the iFlip camera we use to record these lovely videos) of an Impala, the lake from the "Out of Africa" viewpoint, and some Rhinos having an afternoon nap.

That's it for me.  Kim is going to do a blog about our days in the Masai Mara (which is the Kenyan side of the Serengeti)......