What a great day! For the first time in ages, our view of
Mount Kenya was crystal clear and Will decided to try out a flight around the
mountain in his new six seater plane. One minute your day is ticking along as
normal, the next I am in a plane flying around the summit of Mount Kenya. I am
very lucky! The lower slopes of Mount Kenya are farmland with contrasting shades
of yellow, green and brown depending on which crop is growing or has been
recently harvested. Further up, the scenery changes to forests and lakes. The
vivid turquoise blue of Lakes Alice and Ellis are beautiful viewed from above.
Then finally the jagged snow capped peaks –the two highest peaks only
accessible to serious climbers. Those walking up Mount Kenya have to settle for
the third highest peak as their “summit”.
As if my day wasn’t fantastic enough, my mum has booked her
flight out here in September to come and stay for a week, AND I have booked my
flight to India in October. Going to spend six weeks travelling around India
mid October to end of November with Dianne. Very exciting!!
I have finally broken my lion jinx too. Whenever I go on
game drives, I hardly ever see lions. And whilst rhinos, elephants, etc, are
great, secretly everybody wants to see big cats. Now not once, but twice in the
past week, I have seen lions. Admittedly the same two lionesses each time, but
still better than no lions…
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