Weather
Very hot.
Temperature
18’c morning
35’c at midday
25’c at sunset
Landscape
Everything is
drying up with the many trees shedding their leaves. Some places are still
green and lush like the Serengeti (not to be confused with Tanzania’s
Serengeti) and Mbuyuni plains where most wildlife is.
In the
Sanctuary wildlife numbers have doubled due to the scarcity of water in the
adjoining Tsavo West National Park where almost all the natural dams have dried
up.
In the
Sanctuary and around the Camp there are many zebras, impalas, Fringed-eared oryx,
elands, warthogs, buffalos including hippos and crocodiles.
Lake Jipe Jumbos
During the festive season we visited Lake
Jipe in Tsavo West to look for elephants.
The elephants spend time in the lake
until 9 a.m. and then wander away into the plains to browse. They return at
around lunch time. During the dry season, they can even spend the whole day in
the lake feeding on reeds.
We visited the lake thrice during the
festive season and watched the elephants feeding along the lake. Our guests
enjoyed take beautiful pictures of the elephants at the lake with the Pare
Mountains in Tanzania as a backdrop.
Predators
Lions
One lioness
with two cubs seen this week near signage number 43. Two lions were also seen
at Mbuyuni gate.
Cheetah
A collision
of three cheetahs along Salaita road during evening game drives. On the daily
night game drives we have seen cheetahs on four consecutive days at the
airstrip hunting impalas.
Photo credit: Lisa Gebetsroither and Florian from
Austria.
Leopard
One leopard seen near signage number 38 twice
a day.
Written by Stephen Lekatoo.
