It had just quietly munched at some corn in my hand before moving on to the next outstretched arm. But wiping deer spit on the leg of my pants didn’t seem right, so I let it air dry (then slathered sanitizer on my hand).
I turned and came face to face with a female ostrich. She’d been on my group’s tail as we toured the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Animal Orphanage. It was attention, not food, that she was after, so we let her tag along. While many of the animals here are in enclosures, you can get quite close to some - a zebroid, for instance, half zebra, half horse. Others you’ll be happy to be separated from - namely, three hungry cheetahs at meal time. The main aim of the conservancy, which was spawned by Old Hollywood’s William Holden and Don Hunt in the ’60s, is to rear and/or rehabilitate animals and return them to the wild just days earlier they had made room for a cheetah that was attacking local goats. They are also in the process of repopulating Kenya’s endangered bongo, a type of antelope. The tamest type of safari for sure, but it’s the only time we saw cheetahs (despite hours of trolling the bush) and was an ideal primer for game drives. For more information on the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy Animal Orphanage, visit.I felt instantly posh when my riding helmet was secured on my head. I felt instantly that I’d made a huge mistake once I was sitting in the saddle and my horse, Nat King Cole, rushed to find his place in line. Never having ridden before, I was not prepared to a) be that high up and b) move that quickly. I mumbled a tepid “woah” and tugged on the reigns. We set off from the grounds of the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club and headed through the forest of the second highest mountain in Africa, through a river, over rocky hills. “We could be in Northern Ontario,” I suggested. Another in the group said he was reminded of Alberta. Our guide stopped us and we looked right - zebra and albino zebra (white and beige!). Horseback rides are booked on request at the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club.īest for: those who want to do it all those who like a bird’s eye view
#Erotical night download crack
Up two hours before the crack of dawn, we clambered into our Land Cruiser, cameras safely in bags.
No light equals no photographs (which was fine because I was half asleep), but the animals didn’t know that and were out and about anyway. We arrived at the launch site - two balloons going up here this morning (once we were in the sky we saw three others). The dark of night lifted just as the candy-coloured balloons did. Adventure Aloft’s Captain Kim, a South Korean who’s also spent time living in “Winterpeg,” gave us the go ahead to climb aboard and eight of us took our places in the four compartments of the basket. The much-welcome blast of heat from the propane burners enveloped us like a warm blanket as we lifted centimetres from the ground. Suddenly, Captain Kim proclaimed we were 1,200 metres up. We bobbed in the air, taking in the expansive view of the Mara region, the winding river, bush, trees. A more peaceful morning has never been had.