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Giraffe Near Crater Rim
Leaving Ngorongoro Crater area.
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Donkey
Leaving Ngorongoro Crater area.
Since there are so many elephants in these galleries, it seemed only right to put in one photo the symbol of the other US political party.
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Camel
Leaving Ngorongoro Crater area.
Another non-native to Kenya. Note it has what appears to be a tumor. There were several here, with a shepard watching them graze.
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Oldupai Gorge
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Oldupai Gorge
This photo and the next two were taken on the rim, looking down into the gorge (in various directions).
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Oldupai Gorge
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Oldupai Gorge
This is the area where some important discoveries have been made involving early human ancestors. There is a modest museum on the rim of the gorge.
The name is more commonly spelled as Olduvai (a "v" instead of a "p") outside of East Africa. Apparently the first academic publications were in German when Tanzania was a German colony. That initial publicaton used the "v" spelling, and it has tended to stick. The "p" spelling is probably closer to the original name in Swahili.
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Oldupai Gorge
Lizard happened to be the area.
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Oldupai Gorge
Lizard happened to be the area.
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Oldupai Gorge
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Oldupai Gorge
This is the museum building. I probably have around 3/4 of the exterior in this photo. It is not large.
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Oldupai Gorge
Interior of the museum.
The sloped exhibit is a replica (made from a casting) of a set of humanoid tracks made in a layer of volcanic ash (which apparenlty later hardened into a rocklike material. The actual prints are perhaps 40 miles away (and have now been re-covered by protective layers of soil and and rock (and perhaps some materials to reduce rainwater infiltration and damage from tree roots).
The musum "covers" items found in the general area, not just from down in this particular gorge.
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Oldupai Gorge
Another view of the replica of the trackway.
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Oldupai Gorge
The musuem has a lot of text infromation in large display signs like this attached to walls.
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Oldupai Gorge
Another display board. Mary Leakey was perhaps 10 years younger than her husband, and had been his student. She made the more significant finds.
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Oldupai Gorge
This is down in the gorge itself. They have monument or historical marker at the site of one of the more important discoveries.
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Oldupai Gorge
Plaque on the monument.
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Oldupai Gorge
Monument is at right. This shows the area around it. This "cove" has been dug out by their excavations.
It's desert-like and the gorge has steep walls. Apparently during their wet season, there are torrential rains, which causes soil erosion. This is what exposed fossils, which told them where to dig for more fossils.
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Oldupai Gorge
While we were down in the gorge, listening to a talk by the museum director, I looked down an saw a rock with a bit of fossil bone embedded in it. The fossil is at the top left edge of the rock, with the linear features that run roughly "northwest to southeast". The rock is about the size of a set of brass knuckles.
I'm guessing the fossil is a rib bone from a deer-like creature.
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Oldupai Gorge
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Serengeti National Park
We stopped at the entrance gate to the park to eat box lunches provided by the Ngorongoro Lodge.
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Serengeti National Park
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Serengeti National Park
Lots of these cute little rat-like creatures in the pcinic area.
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Serengeti National Park
Hiked up to the top of a rock overlooking the entrance area -- and the surrounding plain. This photo and the next two are views from up there.
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Serengeti National Park
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Serengeti National Park
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Serengeti National Park
One of several small exhibits in the entance area.
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Superb Starling
At park entrance picnic grounds.
I'm pretty sure this is a Superb Starling. I believe they also had a Splendid Starling (whose colors were not quite as "superb"). I have a bad feeling I may have confused the two names one or two places in these descriptions.
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Secretary Bird
Serengeti National Park
After leaving the park entrance complex, we drove for probably more than 1.5 hours without the roof up (and with only a few brief stops to look at interesting animals and birds). There were relatively few animals in that (probably) southeast section of the park this time of year. Then, we put top up and did a slower game drive for probably the last 20-25 miles into the lodge.
I'm not sure which of the next several photos was taken in which part of that drive between the park entrance and the lodge.
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Secretary Bird
Serengeti National Park
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Probably a Male Bohor Reedbuck
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
This is the beginning of a series of photos of a mother chetah and two cubs (I guess "cubs" is the right word). I never got a really good photo of them. Guess I tried to compensate by placing several mediocre photos here.
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Chetahs
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Chetahs
Serengeti National Park
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Zebras
Serengeti National Park
It got sort of boring waiting for the chetahs to do something interesting (or show themselves more clearly). While waiting, I looked around and took photos of stuff in other directions.
This was probably taken with a long zoom setting. Serengeti is supposted to mean "endless plain". Look at the distant background in this photo.
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Zebras
Serengeti National Park
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Clouds
Serengeti National Park
The jeeps are more people looking at the chetahs. I was probably more interested in the clouds here. We got some pretty good (but biref) rains later that night. It probably doesn't show up in any of these photos, but there was a noticable "greening up" of the grass the next day after that rain (relative to this day).
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Chetah Audience
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Clouds
Serengeti National Park. Still at the chetah site.
I may have already written this someplace, but (if so) I'll write it again here. (I had a bit of a computer glitch -- a user glitch really -- while adding these descriptions and had to type some of them in twice. I may repeat myself in some spots because of that glitch.)
The clouds over the almost-flat plains were fascinating to me. I tried to get a photo of the effect I was seeing, Turned out, that effect did not come out well in photos (which surprised me). This is one of the better ones.
What we are looking at here is a series of clouds, with the more distant clouds closer and closer to the horizon with distance. Lookiing at these, I could almost "see" the bottom surface of the clouds forming a dome. Thus it seemed, I was seeing the curature of the earth -- but in the form of the curved lower surface of the bank of clouds. I'm guessing the lower surfaces of all of those clouds were about the same elevation above the ground, and the ground elevation was pretty constant.
Of course, I was looking at this with the background of someone who "knows" (has been taught) the earth is a sphere. I'm not sure I would have really "seen" that curved-earth-surface effect (impressed on the cloud layer) if did not have the advance knowledge the earth was spherical.
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Serengeti Plain
Serengeti National Park. Still at the chetah site. Those look like wildebeests at left. Those are probably bushes (with perhaps a few wildebeests) in the more distant background.
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Impala
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Lions
Serengeti National Park
We passed a pride of lions gathered around a dead hippo. Here are some of those lions.
Was not clear if the lions had killed the hippo, or it they were eating carrion.
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Lions
Serengeti National Park
Same lions again.There are either three or four here with their back to me. That is a male laying on its back in the background.
These guys were in a place where it was difficult to photograph them from the road.
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Blacksmith Plover
Serengeti National Park
This guy was near the lions.
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Blacksmith Plover
Serengeti National Park
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Vultures
Serengeti National Park
This photo (along with the next three) shows vultures who were waiting for the lions to eat that hippo. They they would get leftovers.
Later: I'll keep the caption, but after looking at these closely, as I was going thru the photos a second (or third!) time, adding animal IDs, it looks like there was a mixture of vultures and storks in the area. The ones with the longer bills (like the one in this photo) are storks, probably open-billed storks. The other are probably Lappet-faced vultures
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Vultures
Serengeti National Park
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Vultures
Serengeti National Park
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Vultures
Serengeti National Park
This guy is really a stork. It was in the group with the vultures (and other cranes), near the dead hippo the lions were apparently waiting to start eating. This is probably a Marabou Stork. The same kind of stork is also in the tree in the preceeding photos.
Saw several (actually probably several dozen) of these storks a day or so later at a fishing village on the shore of Lake Victoria. I somehow edited out all of the photos of storks taken at the lake, so this one will have to do double duty.
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Cape Buffalo
Serengeti National Park
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Different Pride of Lions
Serengeti National Park
Sleeping off a bif meal, looks like.
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Giraffes
Serengeti National Park
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Probably a Dik-Dik With Zoom Lens
Serengeti National Park
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Probably Topi
Serengeti National Park
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Probably Topi
Serengeti National Park
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Part of entranceway to the main building containing the reception, dining, and bar areas.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
A carved pillar along the walkway.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
A carving out on a small lawn. This was apparently carved from a large limb protruding upward from a fallen tree trunk.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
There were weaver bird nests on small trees just off that entranceway.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
There were weaver bird nests on small trees just off that entranceway.
The hollow cylinder that seems to hang downward is apparently the entrance to the nest. One bird book suggested there were perhaps 20 different varieties of weaver birds in East Africa. I suspect there are almost as many types of nests.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 08:20:47
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Guest rooms were in these "huts". There were two guest rooms on the lower level of each hut and one up "inside" the dome. These are a bit like the hotel at Lake Maynara, but the thatched roofs were more dome-like. They were more conical at the other lodge.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 08:55:43
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Looking out at the plain thru the gap between two of the guest huts.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 08:56:59
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
View of main building from the grounds (probably taken while I was standing near one of the guest "huts"). The dark areas are like porches where covered tables were located (but no wall on one side -- open to the outside). That's probably the bar area on the right and the dining area on the left.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 08:57:36
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Grounds. Pool. View of the plains off in the distance. The lodge complex was sort of on a ridge that had dramatic views probably at least 120 degrees around.
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Carved Pillar Inside Main Building
This was in the diring area, which was a combination inside/outside area (with the "outside" part covered by a roof, but open on one side).
I don't recall any insect issues in these semi-open-air dining areas.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 13:05:12
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
This is a patio viewing area. It is beyond the pool shown in the previous photo.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 09:00:36
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
The plains seem from the patio. This time with a higher zoom setting.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Guest room interior.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Guest room interior. That is the mosquito netting behind the lamp, in it's daytime "stored" configuration.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Taken inside the guest room. Looking thru door to balcony, then across balcony to Serengeti Plain in the distance. Was told Serengeti means something like"endless plain" (so I guess Sarengeti Plain is Endless Plain Plain).
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Taken sitting on the room balcony. The view direction here was probably 90 degrees away from the direction shown earlier from the patio by the pool.
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Taken sitting on the room balcony (with higher zoom setting than previous photo).
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Serengeti Serena Lodge
Taken sitting on the room balcony. There were no fences around the lodges in Tanzania to keep animals from coming VERY close to the guest areas.
At this lodge (and at the tent camp, where we stayed the two following nights), they wanted people to get security escorts when going between the guest area and the main building after dark. The security escorts were armed with flashlights.
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Date Time : 2012:10:13 10:06:50
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50th Anniversary Celebration
This couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on this trip.
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50th Anniversary Celebration
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50th Anniversary Celebration
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50th Anniversary Celebration
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