 Tanzania Safari Nov 2006 |
 Our Landcruiser, our safari home |
 Grinding coffee |
 Going native |
 Coffee roast |
 Tanzania traffic jam |
 Pottery begins... |
 with clay.. |
 and ends... |
 with artistry. |
 Arusha roadside market |
 Zebras in the Great Riff valley |
 Traditional mud huts |
 Old tusker solitary near the herd |
 Targangire Natural Reserve |
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 Our observation posts |
 Impala |
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 Excited reunion with the herd |
 Protective stance |
 The velt |
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 Boabob tree |
 Dick Dicks |
 Spectacular sparrow |
 Pregnant giraffe |
 Female impala |
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 Gathering storm |
 Wood buck |
 Ant hill perch |
 Cape buffalo sniffing for intruders |
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 Golden mongoose ant hill home |
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 Feeding giraffe |
 Ostrich |
 Sausage tree |
 Elephants everywhere |
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 Grooming monkeys |
 Striped mongoon foraging |
 Egyptian geese |
 Tourists |
 Hunting crane |
 Kingfisher |
 Hawk |
 More elephants |
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 Ibis resting |
 Crane |
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 Hyrox |
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 Elephant crossing |
 Baby after mud bath |
 Thatching for the rainy season |
 Dining with a view... of zebras |
 Contemplative massai warrior |
 Great Riff Valley |
 First look through binoculars |
 Lion spear |
 Cattle herd tending hut |
 Detoga tribesmen |
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 Massai warrior... |
 with a smile |
 Don, Detoga, Gay |
 Storm over the Riff Valley |
 Dung beatle |
 Thorny acasia surrounded Detoga homestead |
 Detoga family leader |
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 Welcome to our hut |
 Second wife with children |
 First wife |
 Third wife |
 It's all about the cattle: food, clothing, wealth, status |
 Wife's hut |
 Marriagable daughter... |
 in her finest.. |
 clothes and jewelry |
 The family |
 Bracelets |
 Massai womens crafts cooperative |
 For love of color |
 Matriarch |
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 Weaving class |
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 Beads for jewelry |
 Preparing dung and mud.. |
 for the hut roof repair |
 The joy of singing |
 Tarangire Sunday market |
 Walking miles to the market |
 Life is hard on man and bicycle |
 Ebony carving |
 Local transport |
 "John", the massai |
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 Ngorongoro Crater |
 12 mile across showcase for species |
 Massai share the crater with wild things |
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 Flat topped acacia |
 Elephant herd on the crater wall |
 Large cape buffalo herd |
 A formidible beast |
 Wart hog kneels to graze |
 Male ostrich in esterus |
 Finding shade... |
 but don't try to pet him |
 Cape buffalo |
 Massai herder |
 Tawny hawk |
 Gold crested cranes |
 Ibis |
 Golden Jackel |
 Flamingos |
 Lioness surveys... |
 the hippopotamus pond |
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 They will forage at night. |
 Surveying the cape buffalo for any weakness |
 Pride |
 at the water hole |
 Cassabara, largest flying African bird |
 Mini migration |
 Zebra and wildabeast travel together |
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 Elephant grass and the grazing plain |
 Up close |
 Stripes are their finger print |
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 Driving out of the crater |
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 Male wood buck |
 Elementary school |
 Tourist-student interchange |
 Gay looks over the work book |
 Tanzania's future |
 Jacaranda trees at the school |
 Whistling acacia houses ants which protect the bush |
 Oldivey gorge where the Leakys studies early man |
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 Entering the vast Seringeti |
 Cheetah |
 surveys the velt |
 for prey. |
 Young hyena |
 Beginning of the rainy season |
 Our temporary home |
 Dawn |
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 Vulture |
 Thompson gazelles everywhere |
 Noctural black eared foxes |
 Zebras near water |
 The top of the food chain |
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 Topi |
 African gothic |
 Hyena on the hunt |
 Dawn |
 "Tommy" |
 The great opportunist with teeth |
 Impala |
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 Wart hogs |
 Baboons |
 Massai hieroglyphics |
 Swallow nests in the cave |
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 Gay and Don |
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 Lilly |
 Topi |
 Cape buffalo herd.. |
 always watchful |
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 Elusive leopard |
 Leopards kill hidden in the tree |
 Balloon at dawn |
 Baboon troop |
 Black hornbill with snake kill |
 Lions... |
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 Owl |
 Well feed couple |
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 Hartabeast keeping track of preditors |
 Giraffe salade bar |
 Nile crocodill |
 Hippo pod |
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 Northeastern Seringeti before the migration |
 Our OAT group |
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 A touching moment |
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 Stork.. |
 taking flight |
 Lion couple |
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 Morning dew |
 Awaiting their turn after a lion kill |
 Vultures also waiting and warming wings |
 King ... |
 of the Seringeti |
 Another large pride |
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 The vast velt |
 Massai village |
 Looking back at the plain |
 Skirting the crater rim jungle |
 Local sweater maker |
 Brewing banana beer |
 Local market |
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 Flamboyant tree |
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