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Impala
Again, my memory sort of fails me for this day. I THINK what we did was have a fairly late start. We went on a game drive toward an exit from the park (but slowly, looking at animals, etc.).
After a rest stop at the park gate (with "interesting" rest rooms), we went to a native fishing village on Lake Victoria. Then we came back into the park and returned to the tent camp. My memory is that after lunch, we had the afternoon at leisure to enjoy the luxury tent camp (and catch up on reading e-mail, since the tent camp had a strong (and free) wi-fi signal in the bar area (the bar was also in a tent, of course, a fairly large one).
There were some dramatic views from this tent camp (as did several of the Serena lodges. The camp seemed to be at the end of a ridge, which provided dramatic views in three different directions.
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Grazing Hippo
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Grazing Hippo
The "flag" next to the hippo is a teste fly trap (actually, as I understood it), it contained a chemical that was sort of a birth control for the flies, not a poison. The two colors are are supposed to be attractive to these flies. Turned out, one of the shirts I brought on this trip was alomst exactly the shade of blue that appears on this "flag".
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Hippos in a Pool
These were close to the "grazer" shown in the previous photo. This pool was in a place that was very hard to photograph, due to the terrain and foreground trees and foliage.
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Giraffe
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Safari Jeep Interior
We were about to drive thru a creek. However, the steepness of the incline we were on is not evident in the photo.
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Waterbucks
I can only spot two in thsi photo, but I believe there were actually four in this area. In this case, they really were on sloping ground -- the "tilt" is not due to how I was holding the camera -- well, not all of it is.
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Waterbucks
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Waterbucks
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Waterbucks
I think all four are in this photo. There is one at far left and the head of one at right, just below the horizontal centerline of the photo.
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Lion and Giraffe
Note giraffe legs a right.
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Lion
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Lion and Giraffe
There are at least two lions here, both partially hidden by the tall grass.
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Lions and Giraffes
Wider angle of the whole scene. Two giraffes, two lions at left, and one lion at right.
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Lion and Giraffe
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Lion and Giraffe
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Lion
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Lion
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Baboons
I count 14 here. I believe there were several that I couldn't get into the photo (and there might have been even more behind me on the other side of the road we were parked on).
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Baboons
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Baboon
I kept trying to get a classic "baboon state" photo. This isn't exactly what I wanted, but it may be the closest one that I was able to get.
Probably Olive Baboons.
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Baboon
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Zebras and Wildebeests (Yet Again)
Note the litle guy in the middle foreground. There MIGHT also be something (gazelles, perhaps) back behind the wildebeests.
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Possibly a Tawny Eagle or a Snake Eagle
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Possibly a Tawny Eagle or a Snake Eagle
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Serengeti Park Entrance
This is a different entrance than the one where we first entered. This one is close to Lake Victoria.
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Serengeti Park Entrance
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Serengeti Park Entrance
This is one set of toilets. They had other rest rooms that were somewhat more upscale than this, but not by much.
After I got back to the US, I read an article where the writer speculated that, in a hypotheritcal situation where a choice had to be made between giving up (1) all the advances in phones made after 1980 and (2) our standard pluming fixtures (flush toilets, hot and cold running water, etc.), most Americans would keep the plumbing and give up the phones. Interestingly, however, in many places in the world, people are, in effect, making the opposite choice. They are adopting cell phones and (in efferct) deferring plumbing.
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Tsete Fly Population Control Device
The hanging flag-like cloth is "impregnated" with some kind of chemical that provides "birth control" for tsete flies.
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Roadside Village Market Area
This was outside the park gate, while we were on the way to a fishing village on the shore of Lake Victoria.
Note (from overhead wires) this area has electricity. One of the businesses in this village (not pictured here) sold recharging services (for devices such as cell phones) to people who lived in outlying areas that were not on the power grid.
Taken from jeep while moving.
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Roadside Village Market Area
Note communication towers. I presume these provide cell phone service, but I'm not certain.
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Roadside Village Market Area
Again, you can see kiosks and pedestrians in the "parking area" between the paved road and the row of permanent buildings.
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Fishng Village
The next several photos were taken at a fishing village on the shores of Lake Victoria. The boats are in view because most of the fishing is done by the men at night. There is a market (where I didn't really get any good photos) where the fishermen's wives sell the fish (and people from surrounding farms sell vegatbles).
The village has no electricity or running water (but does have a school).
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Fishng Village
Those are nets in the boat.
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Fishng Village
This was taken in the market area.
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Fishng Village
I believe this photo was taken on the main street of the village.
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Fishng Village
This was off on kind of a side street. These are mud bricks drying. It looked to me like they had dismantled an older building, converted the old mud bricks back to mud (by adding water) and were using the same mud to make new bricks. Apparently a mud brick building slowly dissolves due to wind-driven rain striking it from the sides and from small amounts of water leakage through the roof seeping into the brick walls.
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Fishng Village
The boats are manufactured in a boatyard in the village. Note the complicated shapes of the boards making up ribs or support structure in the hull of the partially finished boat. The main in the foreground is making these shaped boards with a hand saw.
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Fishng Village
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Fishng Village
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Fishng Village
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Fishng Village
There were a lot of birds around the seashore of the village.
The black and white birds are Black-winged Stilts. I'm not sure about the ones with the gray on top of their bodies and on their heads.
Looking at the bird photos taken at this village that I picked for this album, the thing that surprises me is that storks do not appear in any of them. There were a LOT of hugh storks near the shore and on and around the buildings closest to the shore. I may have omitted them because I didn;t have what seemed to be a good photo of a stork. And obtaining a good photo of a stork is probably not easy. There are (to me) not very attractive birds. There is at least one photo of this type of stork in an earlier album.
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Fishng Village
Kingfisher? This was cropped from a much larger photo. Going thru the bird ID books, this probably looks most like a Pied Kingfisher. However there are some differences, between what is seen there and the book's drawing of a Pied Kingfisher.
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Fishng Village
Possibly an egret of some kind.
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Fishng Village
Same bird as previous photo.
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Fishng Village
Possibly a black-headed heron (but the color of the head looks too light compared to pictures in the bird ID bookis).
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Ostriches
This is back in the park, after leaving the village and on the way back to the tent camp.
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Ostriches
I believe these were the only baby ostriches we saw.
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Ostriches
At least five here. The males are the darker ones.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
The tent camp was located on the edge of a ridge so it had views roughly 270 degrees around. I believe this photo -- along with the next -- were taken from near the larger tent where the bar was located.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
I believe this was cropped from the preceding image. These are wildebeests, of course.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
Not the girafe and a few wildebeests just below and to the right of the center of this photo.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
Higher zoom setting, try to get a photo of the giraffe.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
This MIGHT be a White-browed Coucal.
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
I believe this photo was taken from porch of my individual guest tent (as was the next photo). It faced a different direction and had a different view than the bar tent.
This was a high zoom level shot (as was the next one).
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Photos of Serengeti -- From Tent Camp
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