Battles Of Wills: Two Year Old vs Maasai Warrior!

The two year old has some deadly hair grabbing techniques.

The power of a well trained warrior wins out.

Even though people have different roles, the love and care of children is a community effort with the Maasai.

Banana Flower

Most Americans know what bananas look like.

Most would not recognize a banana flower.

 

The bananas and their flowers grow on these trees.

Bananas have big, beautiful flowers!

Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi

 Feeding time for the orphans.

They get fed a special formula. It took a while for them to get the right mix for the babies. But they finally got it right.

They get to play in the mud holes.

It takes years before the youngsters are adopted by a new family of elephants.

Slippery fun for the youngsters.  Many of the spectators get speckled and splattered with flying mud.

They also get to have some greens with their meal.

To touch and be touched.

Yes

Quartz

These quartz rocks were an hour's walk from our camp.
They are just sitting on the ground.

Most of these stones are just a 1/3 mile from our camp. They
 are not single crystal points like many people are used to seeing.
They are a single rock with many fragments which flake off 
the rock and moves downstream. The harsh Kenyan 
elements crack the surface of the stone.

A rainbow of colors can be seen in these stones.

 This beautiful quartz was sculpted by water in this stream bed.

This is a shard of qaurtz found in the sand of the river 
right behind our camp.

Some of the beauty of Maasai  land will be missed if you 
are in a hurry.

Insects of Kenya

Ants taking home some dinner.

Ant's hanging out at home.

Bee nests, near the equator, have 
no outside shell like they do 
in colder climates.

I picked up something one night 
and this crawled onto my hand!

Bathroom visitor.

Bright collored fellow.

Child exploring mantis.

These moths frequented our home.

Unwanted home visitors.

A rare stick visitor.

Boy these dung beetle are busy bugs.
They zig zag down a trail like a drunk.

This beautiful dung beetle was almost
 unnoticed because of its small size.

I was taking photos of this small
 flower when I spied the dung beetle.

Animals Of Amboseli National Park