To Lake Nakuru

We started off to Lake Nakuru this morning after breakfast buffet - a velvet monkey came in and stole the bananas at yesterday's buffet - the chef was guarding the fruit tray today.

Forgot to mention the Masai village we visited yesterday. It is close to Sopa Lodge where we are staying and is pretty much a "tourist trap." They did a dance for us in ethnic costume (Michael and Jerry danced too), made a fire with 2 sticks of wood, toured their homes (made out of cow dung, mud and sticks), then were bombarded with hard-sell tactics for souvenirs. We lost Anthony for awhile, but found him later with a machete and 3 necklaces.

Back to our trek to Lake Nakuru - at the halfway point to Nairobi, we had to drop Lisa and Mike off since they would leaving to go to Tanzania in the morning. We will miss Mike inhaling the endless plates of food and Lisa's Nikon clicking away (can't wait to see the pics Lisa!).

The road up to Nakuru was tons better. Our drivers, Noor and Paris are amazing - not only dodging potholes and oncoming traffic, but missing errant goats, zebra and other forms of African wildlife. We finally made it here to the lodge in about 2 hours.

Lake Nakuru is 1 1/2 feet deep throughout - one can conceivably walk across the lake if he wanted to. It is also very alkaline - not many fish, the wildlife will eat the algae. After checking into our rooms and lunch, we did a quick safari and found the rhinoceros (a whole herd of them). Also, the flamingos are in abundance here - the "Lesser Flamingos" are pink, while the "Greater Flamingos" are white. A lot of Marabou Stork and European Storks passing through on migration.

Dinner was good - I had a small steak fillet - and, of course the Kenyan tea. The boys and Vanetta stayed up to play a little pool while the rest of us turned in - saw mosquito in my room for the first time this trip!