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Into the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
The first three photos in this album were taken around when we first arrived at the floor of the crater (some perhaps even while we were still on the way down)> It had been very foggy up on the rim when we first got up. I had feared the fog would be even more dense down on the crater floor. However, it turned out to be just the opposite. We had been "up on the clouds" on the rim.
In these first three photos (and in some others) the bottom surface of the "fog layer" (or "cloud layer") is visible partway up the crater wall. The fog cleared throughout our time on the crater floor.
This was the longest single game run of the trip in terms of elapsed time. We were probably inside the crater for close to 5 hours, and it was probably around 6.5 to 7 hours from entering the jeeps at the lodge until the return to the lodge.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:48:46
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Into the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:49:48
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Into the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:51:05
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Thompson's Gazelle
Ngorongoro Crater.
I'm pretty sure this is a "Tommie" (as is the next photo).
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:51:21
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Thompson's Gazelle
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:51:40
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Zebras
Ngorongoro Crater.
Also early-morning fog along crater wall.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:53:15
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
The next several photos are primarily concerned with a group of male lions (only one of whom seems to be visible in this photo). I believe there were four male lions in all, but it seems the largest number that show up in any one photo is three.
It's apparently unusual to see groups of males with no females around. This could be a group of young males that had recently been expelled from the pride they were born in (and grew up in). If that is the case, they would be looking for an established pride (like a harem) they could take over (replacing and expelling the older males in that pride). I assume the attempt at taking over an established pride is pretty much a do or die thing.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:55:22
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:55:22
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:55:49
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
Three lions in the background in this photo.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:58:12
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Male Lions
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 22:58:37
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:01:52
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:02:44
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Male Lions
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:02:44
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Zebra
Ngorongoro Crater.
A couple gazelles in the background.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:03:13
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Zebras
Ngorongoro Crater.
A bit of sunlight peeked thru in this photo.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:03:32
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Jackal in foreground.
Ngorongoro Crater.
This COULD be a Golden Jackal.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:08:32
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Hyena
Ngorongoro Crater.
Probably a spotted hyena, but I'm not certain.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:15:06
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Hyena
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:15:47
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Grey-crowned Cranes
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:18:21
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Ostriches
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:19:19
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Ostrich
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:21:59
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Ostrich
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:21:59
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Wildebeest
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:22:50
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Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
Black-backed Jackal.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:25:44
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Cape Buffalo
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:28:01
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Cape Buffalo
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:28:08
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Cape Buffalo (Baby in this Group)
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:29:48
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Cape Buffalo (Baby in this Group)
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:31:03
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Cape Buffalo
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:31:14
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
There are quite a few photos in this set. I have a vague recollection there may have been two different elephant families here, where we saw the second one only a few minutes after leaving the first one. However, I'm not sure.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:36:07
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
Note the larger one in the background seems to have the same type of gland secretion that was observed earlier in the other part. This one seems to be mixed in with a family. I thought only the bulls did this secretion thing. Perhaps my "understanding" (such as it is) on that is incorrect. Or perhaps this is a young bull who has not yet left the family, or an older one who is near the family, either by chance or for breeding.
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:37:24
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:37:34
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Elephant Family
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:37:54
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:40:14
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Baboons
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:44:51
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Cape Buffalo
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:46:46
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
I THINK this was one of a family. However, it might have been a lone bull.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:50:02
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:50:54
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:51:57
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:52:14
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:52:26
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
As you can probably imagine, if there are this many elephants and they eat 15-16 hours per day, they pretty much destroy a lot of trees during a year. I suspect they seldom really kill a tree. However, they need a lot of room. I suspect it would be many months before thus tree recovered so that the elephant could come back to eat this same tree again.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:52:59
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:53:07
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:53:37
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:53:45
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:53:54
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:55:05
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:55:12
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Elephant Family
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:11 23:55:19
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Rest Area Inside Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
This photo and the text two were taken at a rest room area on the floor of the crater. It was one of the few places we could get out of the jeeps on the crater floor (or anywhere in the national parks, outside of the lodges and their grounds).
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:08:29
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Rest Area Inside Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:08:38
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Rest Area Inside Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
Tree had interesting bark.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:11:22
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
Line of wildebeests off in the distance. They show up on several of the next several photos.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:22:24
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:22:31
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:23:10
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:23:30
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:23:47
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Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:24:44
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Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:26:42
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Jackals
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:27:19
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Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:27:31
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Jackals
Ngorongoro Crater.
Based on the time stamps on the photos, these seem to have all been taken at about the same time. However, they don't all look like the same type of jackal (now that I know there are multiple types).
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:29:21
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Landscape VIew
Ngorongoro Crater.
This was probably intended to be a photo showing a section of the distant crater walls (with the fog layer higher than it had ben earlier).
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:27:49
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Gazelle
Ngorongoro Crater.
Gazelle looks like a Grant's. Wildebeest is in the background.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:31:25
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Gazelles
Ngorongoro Crater.
I believe these are Grant's Gazelles (as is the one in the preceding photo). They have white fur higher up on their rear ends than the also-common Thompson's Gazelles, which we also saw a lot of. I understand there are several existing species of gazelles. However, Thomspson's and Grant's were the only two pointed out to us on this trip. If there were others, I missed them.
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Wildebeests
Ngorongoro Crater.
Not sure if I mentioned in a prevous description how the stripes on their sides seemed to show up on only a few of them. I wasn't sure if that was a real color difference among them, or if it depended on viewing angle and the lighting comditions.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:40:39
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Wildebeests
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:40:48
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IMG_1692.jpg
Elephant Skull (Probably)
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:46:03
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IMG_1693.jpg
Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
There were two in this area, but I don't seem to have gotten good photos with both of them in the same exposure.
These look like black-backed ones.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:47:04
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IMG_1698.jpg
Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:47:54
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Jackal
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 00:49:14
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Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
We left the lodge before breakfast was served. In place of that, we had sort of a "box breakfast" buffet in the jeeps. It was set out on picnic blankets near the hippo pool (another place in the crater we could leave the vehicles -- there were rest rooms there too).
I believe this photo is level. The shape of the far shoreline makes it SEEM to be a bit tilted.
The next several photos were taken at that breakfast stop.
And, just to be clear, it was the TOURISTS who were having breakfast here (even though it seems I didn't actually include any photos of people eating).
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Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:01:44
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-125
Focal Length : 76.85
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1714.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/250.73
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:02:45
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 81.04
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1721A.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/250.73
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:06:19
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 44.66
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1722.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:06:28
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-125
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1723.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:06:37
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1724A.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:06:43
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1733.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/158.68
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:08:43
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 91.55
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1734.jpg
Picnic Breakfast at the Hippo Pool
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:08:56
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1712.jpg
Sacred Ibis
There were several interesting birds in and near that "hippo pool".
I've grouped photos together a bit. When I was taking them, I shoot a hippo picture, then a bird picture, etc.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:01:31
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-250
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1716.jpg
Sacred Ibis
Ngorongoro Crater.
At the hippo pool.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:02:59
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1731.jpg
Sacred Ibis
Ngorongoro Crater.
At the hippo pool.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:07:59
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1725B.jpg
Probably a Grey Heron
Ngorongoro Crater.
At the hippo pool.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:07:05
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 10.07
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1729.jpg
Grey Heron
Ngorongoro Crater.
At the hippo pool.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:07:34
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1735.jpg
Weaver Bird
Ngorongoro Crater.
I'm pretty sure this is a weaver bird of some type. A bird book indicates there are perhaps 20 different kinds (although I suspect that's in all of Africa -- there may be fewer types commonly seen in Kenya and Tanzania). Some seen at other locations were much closer to Pittsburgh Steeler colors that this one.
These weaver bird photos were all at the breakfast stop.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:18:47
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-250
Focal Length : 88.48
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1738.jpg
Weaver Bird
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/101.13
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:19:51
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 45.44
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1744.jpg
Weaver Bird
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:20:49
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 59.1
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1747.jpg
Weaver Bird
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/101.13
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:21:55
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 32.02
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1749.jpg
Possibly Blacksmith Plovers
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:37:52
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 75.53
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1752.jpg
Probably a Blacksmith Plover
Ngorongoro Crater.
One bird book uses the name Blacksmith Plover, while the other uses the name Blacksmith Lapwing. I suspect there may be regional variations in terminology in different parts of Africa. It's a big place.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:38:24
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
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Focal Length : 150.5
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IMG_1753.jpg
Probably a Blacksmith Plover
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:38:31
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1755.jpg
Superb Starling
Ngorongoro Crater.
Another guy hanging around -- probably hoping for breakfast scraps. This was "wildlife" but we were in a parking area in a national park. I'm pretty sure we weren't the first humans these birds had seen eating in this area.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:43:45
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Focal Length : 56.07
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1756.jpg
Superb Starling
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:43:52
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-125
Focal Length : 56.07
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1761.jpg
Superb Starling
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:44:47
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 125.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1763.jpg
Probably a Grey Heron
Ngorongoro Crater.
Again, all of the photos of birds in this sequence were at or adjacent to the hippo pool.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 01:51:41
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1772.jpg
These Look Like Blacksmith Plovers
Ngorongoro Crater.
Taken as we were leaving the hippo pool area.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:01:58
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 49.6
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1775.jpg
Zebras and Wildebeests.
Ngorongoro Crater.
Zebras and Wildebeests. Later learned it's common for zebras to stand in a clump like this and to face different directions -- they are said to be on the lookout for lions.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:04:50
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
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Focal Length : 61.23
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1776.jpg
Zebras and Wildebeests.
Ngorongoro Crater.
Note crater wall in background with fog layer evident partway up the wall.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:04:57
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 42.36
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1777A.jpg
Possibly Spur-winged Geese in Flight (but that's a guess)
Ngorongoro Crater.
Here one crater wall is close by, behind me. The photo shows the far wall, way in the distance
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:12:17
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1778.jpg
Grey-crowned Cranes
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/158.68
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:12:32
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 63.41
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1779.jpg
Grey-crowned Cranes
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/634.73
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:12:42
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-400
Focal Length : 63.41
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1779A.jpg
Grey-crowned Cranes
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:12:42
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-400
Focal Length : 63.41
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1784.jpg
Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:15:54
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 125.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1785A.jpg
Kori Bustard
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:16:03
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 132.49
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1789.jpg
Ostrich
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/250.73
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:18:44
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 33.15
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1791.jpg
Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/158.68
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:19:00
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 71.7
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1792.jpg
Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:19:09
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 76.85
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1793.jpg
Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/202.25
Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:19:18
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1793A.jpg
Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:19:18
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1796.jpg
Sleeping Lion?
Ngorongoro Crater.
I believe that is a male lion sleeping to the right side of the center of this photo.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:26:50
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1798.jpg
Dramatic Sky
Ngorongoro Crater.
Was intended to be a sky photo, I think.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:27:12
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 14.3
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1802A.jpg
Distant Hyena
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:38:57
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 42.36
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1804A.jpg
Warthog
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:40:25
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 4.3
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1808.jpg
Hippo Grazing
Ngorongoro Crater.
This is some distance from the "breakfast" hippo pool. This guy out grazing probably came from a different pool. The water in the background is the largest lake in the crater (in terms of surface ares). My memory is that we were told it is salty. I'm not sure if that prevents the hippo from using it.
The white birds in the lake are flamingoes. I apparently did not get a good photo of them.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:46:03
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1810.jpg
Lake
Ngorongoro Crater.
Lake at distance, with birds. Apparently the distance overwhelmed the power of my zoom lens here. Note the amount of exposed lakebed surface. We were there neat the end of their dry season. I'm guessing that a couple months later there is more water in the lake (and hence, the shoreline and the water birds are closer to the road, which would make for better photos here).
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:46:34
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 64.5
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1805.jpg
Warthog
Ngorongoro Crater.
Sunlight, finally.
The next several photos are shown here way out of sequence to group togeher related stuff.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:40:32
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 46.26
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1820.jpg
Warthog
Ngorongoro Crater.
Another photo of them "walking" on their front "elbows" or "knees" when feeding on stuff close to the ground.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:52:40
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 119.15
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1829.jpg
Warthog
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:54:32
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-125
Focal Length : 72.96
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1840A.jpg
Rhinos
These were the first rhinos we saw. Took a lot of photos, even though the distance made for marginal photos, even with the zoom lens.
We later saw another rhino, at a much closer distance.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:04:55
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1854.jpg
Rhinos
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:07:31
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1860.jpg
Rhinos
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:07:51
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1875.jpg
Rhinos
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/501.46
Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:12:34
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 134.51
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1881.jpg
Cape Buffalo
Shutter Speed : 1/501.46
Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:18:04
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 83.9
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1881A.jpg
Cape Buffalo
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/501.46
Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:18:04
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 83.9
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1816.jpg
Safari Tourists
Ngorongoro Crater.
This was a group of safari jeeps photographed from a distance (and shown here out of sequence). They are clearly looking at something. I suspect they were looking at the group of lions, who are shown in the following several photos. However, they might have been looking at something else, such as the two rhinos.
Note the road in the background. I'm pretty sure that is the two-way road we later took to leave the crater. It is about 180 degrees around from the one-way-downward road (near the lodge) we used to enter the crater. We had to spend close to an hour on a very rugged rim road to get back to the lodge.
There is a one-way-upward road that comes out near the lodge. However, it was closed for repairs (or perhaps a rebuild).
The dark area at the left center of this photo appears to be a cloud shadow. However, there was also an area in this part of the crater that had been blackened by a grass fire.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 02:48:48
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 32.02
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1890.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:26:00
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 22.55
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1891.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
Blue sky.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:26:19
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 4.5
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1899A.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:28:01
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 4.82
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1920A.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
Perhaps the caption should be something like "Lioned Up on the Road".
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:34:33
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 5.08
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IMG_1922A.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
A place in the shade.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:38:16
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 7.22
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1924A.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/809
Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:39:17
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 6.5
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1925.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
Shutter Speed : 1/809
Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:39:44
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 6.5
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1931.jpg
Lions on the Road
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:42:15
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 12
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1906.jpg
Guinea Fowl
Ngorongoro Crater.
We were stopped for a time at the "Lions in the Road" place. I took several photos of other things -- in between "lion" photos. I've tried to group related subjects together here.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:32:08
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1919A.jpg
Guinea Fowl
Ngorongoro Crater.
Birds in foreground. Wildebests and Zebras in background.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:34:14
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 55.11
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1928A.jpg
Looking Across the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
Looking back across the crater from the "lions in the road" stop. The horizontal dark "line" just below the center of the photo is herds of wildebeests and zebras. It's quite possible the lodge is somewhere up on the crater rim shown here, if I knew where to look for it.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:40:52
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 9.72
Aperture : F/4
IMG_1929.jpg
Looking Across the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:41:07
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 23.77
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1896.jpg
Looking Across the Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:27:24
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 43.13
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1933A.jpg
Trees
Ngorongoro Crater.
This is on the way out of the crater. I think these trees are called sisal. If that's what they are, this is a type of tree used for making rope -- including the rough rope used on cat scratching posts.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 03:45:20
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 11.79
Aperture : F/5.6
IMG_3497.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
I believe all of the next several photos were taken after we got back to the lodge. The previous day, we arrived at the lodge late on a rainy afternoon. This was the first time we had seen the crater floor from here in sunlight (well, partial sunlight-- there are many cloud shadows on the crater floor).
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 05:34:59
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot A495
ISO Speed : ISO-80
Focal Length : 6.6
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1942.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
Part of the crater walls and rim are visible in this one.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:11:21
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ISO Speed : ISO-200
Focal Length : 6.61
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IMG_1943A.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
The area on the crater floor with trees (in lower half of phots) is where we saw most of the elephants -- they were all fairly early in the day.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:11:31
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 24.61
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1944.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
With high zoom setting. I think the body of water in this photo is the breakfast hippo pool.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:11:41
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-100
Focal Length : 150.5
Aperture : F/5.78
IMG_1945.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:11:51
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Focal Length : 43.89
Aperture : F/5.03
IMG_1946A.jpg
Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:12:06
Equip Model : Canon PowerShot SX40 HS
ISO Speed : ISO-160
Focal Length : 14.55
Aperture : F/4.5
IMG_1947A.jpg
Lake in Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
The largest "lake" (at the low point of the crater, I imagine). The white are is exposed lake bottom (during dry season). The white color might be due to the salt content of the water in the lake (the salt having deposited as the lake water evaporated).
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Lake in Crater
Ngorongoro Crater.
This is a high zoom setting photo of the lake area, taken from the crater rim. Here it is clear that the lake is mostly dry this time of year. If you look closely, there is a road just above the horizontal centerline of the photo and vehicle is on that road. I imagine that is about where our jeep was when the grazing hippo photo and the other lake photo from the crater floor were taken.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:12:30
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Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:12:37
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Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:12:47
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Crater Floor Views From Rim
Ngorongoro Crater.
Several cloud shadows in this photo.
The rest of this day, after lunch, we had pretty much free to enjoy the lodge, catch up on e-mail, etc. This particualr lodge had pretty good wi-fi reception down in the bar, if I recall correctly.
I also amused myself by taking photos of currency of both countries. They had nice engravings of animals on some bills. Thought it might be best not to include photos of currency here.
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Date Time : 2012:10:12 07:13:10
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