Sunday, May 29, 2011

Happy Memorial Day to everyone!

Good morning and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you and upon you and through you!















I appologize; I had not had the time to post last Friday or Saturday, so I shall take the time to do that quickly before we head out to see Nakuru Park with Merle and Sue Beachy, my sister and brother in law, today. Our unlimited internet runs out sometime this evening and I want to download as much as I can with it too before it does.

Friday and Saturday found us spending more time in the compound at Kichakani Camp than normal - just trying to catch up with everything, meaning studying, writing, praying, and whatever else of necessity that needed to be done.

We read the whole book of Job those days. Oh what a joy that was. My Lord! WHat dialogue with heaven! Job, a man of God, speaking out of turn a bit, but God had regard to him by his offering. His three miserable comforters could only be restored to God if Job would offer the sacrifice for them! Thinbk of the tremendous amount of weight that we as believers carry on our shoulders before God, for the relationship of those who do wrong before Him! Contemplate that a bit!

On Friday, we had the baboons in the camp again. This one took off with the chicken scraps and ate then just outside our tent on the other side the fence where JJ couldn't get to him!


The other somewhat unsettling thing that was just outside our tent that day and then literally under our porch the morning we were leaving was the Monitor Lizard. OIYYYY! I know you can't really see it here but he is almost 7 feet long! His mama and daddy are 15-18 feet! Just sat away big guys!


More Maasai Mara

I thought we shall post a few more Maasai Mara photos of the last few day that we went out for a short time.

The Topi a rust and bronze colored fellow. There are quite a few of these on the range. They seem to be the cops that warn - maybe better; the watchmen on the wall that warn everyone else oof impending danger! Notice all the Thompson Gazelles around. There are hundreds of thousands of those everywhere you go.

Talk about the greatness of nature and God's creation. Here is another chameleon. Notice his change in color from the first photo to the last one, about 3-5 minutes later, after he sheds his skin coat to change his color! Don't be a chameleon and blend in to whatever surrounding you are in! Here he had just climbed up onto the rock!


Here he is shedding his skin and blending into the rock color!


Have I told you that my favorite animal on safari is the Giraffe?!?!?! Yes - they are so graceful! Here is a large male!


Here seems to be a male Hippo following a female! Notice they bring their back ends up out of the water to do their business! Quite a scene!


We saw sooooooo many guineas. Never have we seen so many on safari! I always found them so annoying in the states. They are even more annoying if they are in the big fig tree outside your tent early in the morning!



The work of the Weaverbirds! They sew their nests so intricately!

Here is one upclose!



The african version of a Killdeer! Far more beautiful than the american version!



Here is one of the more exciting photos that we took. The amazing Kitebird or African Flycatcher. Cheryl caught this magnificent fellow in action. The first one he is coming toward his wife on the left - you can see her, and then he keeps dancing for her! Notice that tail!




Not sure of the exact name of this one but it is in the robin family!



And then we found ourselve in the middle of a huge herd of Cape Buffalo! My Lord! Thanks for your protection! There were hundreds of them maybe toward a thousand. As we drove through, several of the mamas snorted and threw their heads at us and feigned a charge. Remeber we had been charged by a bull earlier!





As the sun set that evening, JJ our guide, and Mary our cook, built a fire for us out in the middle of the Mara, amongst the lions, and amid the hyenas wailing! A great test for the strong of heart as the sun went down and darkness settled in!







I ust go, they are waiting! In Him and for the Kingdom, Lael









1 comment:

  1. How exciting!!! You posted a picture of the Weaver bird-I just wrote about them in the VBS preschool material.How they build their nests facing the sun to keep their babies warm while the parent bird hunts for food. Love and miss you both! God bless, Ruth

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