During our Kenyan safari, we spent a lot of time in this van with our awesome driver, Otete. He was an incredible wealth of knowledge about Kenya and its amazing animals and culture. He was also pretty great at spotting game.
On our morning and evening game drives, we popped up the roof like this and stood up to look for animals. 
There were tons of other safari vans around and the drivers all communicated by radio. It was pretty exciting when Otete's radio started going off with voices and he drove with purpose - we knew we were going to get to see something wonderful and were not disappointed! 
Mikey was definitely our best game spotter - his binoculaurs were magical! He and I often stood up front in the van, but I didn't come through with anything but guinea hens and elephants. I didn't inherit my mother's eagle eye like Mike did.
On our Treetops game drive, we saw 2 leopards (spotted by Mike, of course), some hyenas walking down the road, buffalo at close range, and other animals. Pat and Mike were up front, intently searching. Who knew that game spotting would be a completely focused activity for the whole fam?!? It kept us so quiet, we didn't have any chance to argue. :)
Mum, Katie, and I stood in back with the wind whipping through our hair, sometimes looking, sometimes just waiting for the boys to find something!
Once something was spotted, we all stood up, cameras and binos in hand. Mum & Dad took awesome pictures and I took some video with Katie's camera for our "Circle of Life" video. The boys and KateKate looked through the binos. We saw so many wonderful animals!
When we traveled between game reserves, we had some down time in the van, so napping was a common activity. The 6:30 a.m. game drives kind of made naps a necessity!
1 comment:
nice post, that Mike chap sure sounds like a predator.
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