Camping, Crater Lake and Nakuru National Park

Fun fact: simba means lion in Swahili. Unfortunately, the only evidence of lions we saw on our game drive through the Lake Nakuru National Park was their footprints. We did see: zebras, giraffes, warthogs, a rhino, vervet monkeys, baboons, water buck, and a hyena poking his head up from the grass! As well as a beautiful park surrounding the lake.

After a week in Nairobi meeting Dacia's friends and seeing different parts of the city, we drove from Nairobi to Lake Navaisha, a couple hours away depending on traffic. We set up camp on the lake at Camp Carnelley's for three nights, and drove to the park and hike from there. There are hippos close to shore, but they seemed happy to stay in one area at a safe distance from our tent.

On the way to Crater Lake, which we hiked around, there were baby warthogs, zebras along the side of the road, and pieces of obsidian scattered around like any other rock. Now we are back in Nairobi for the long weekend...next up: Zanzibar!

Missed Connections and Making Nairobi

To the lovely lady at West Jet who was so kind to me. She dialed my travel agent and the flight company; held a seat so I could fly Nanaimo to Calgary. When your flight is noon in Vancouver the options are: 1. Take a 5:30am ferry and bus and skytrain with a bunch of bags; 2. Take a flight from Nanaimo to Vancouver with lots of time to spare.

But there's no way to plan for rain storms and 65 km/hour winds. The earliest they could get me on a flight would have me landing in Vancouver at 11am. Not going to make the flight. But I re-booked and headed straight to Calgary to catch my next flight to Amsterdam and when I checked in, it was like I never missed that flight.

Rose out of rainy Nanaimo to rainbows and turbulence. Then floated weightless on a bed of clouds. Rollercoaster landed in Calgary; white-knuckling the seat in front while we rocked and tilted. The guy beside me said this was his second worst flight. They dropped 100 feet straight down in his first.

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Three flights, 24 hours, five movies and an 11-hour time difference from home; I'm here and well. Watch out Nairobi, here I come!