A few years ago, Greta and I were invited to join friends for a visit to East Africa. The trip involved a conference in Mombasa, Kenya, on the Indian ocean and then a trip into the Great Rift Valley to a mission station and then to Masai Mara Game Reserve. It involved a long drive into the wilderness, and an overnight with a missionary family in as remote location as I had ever seen. At the time I said I used to think I was a missionary and had lived in some wild places, but this family took the cake.
The next day we drove to to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. From the moment we left the mission compound, we began to see some amazing animals. When we entered the park the animals were abundant beyond imagination. We had not driven 3 miles along a trail until a male lion sauntered out of the bush and walked by our vehicle as if it/we did not exist. He was the "king" and knew it. We saw most of the "big" game that day; lions, elephants, hippo, zebra, giraffe, cape buffalo, cheeta --literally thousands of animals, except the rhino.
When the lion walked by, everyone was trying to get me to roll up the window for fear of being attacked by the vicious beast. Some hours later, as we were about to leave the park, we came upon a herd of cape buffalo resting quietly some distance off the road. Our missionary guide began to tell us that these big cows, not the lions, were the most dangerous animals in the area and that more people were treated in the mission clinic from buffalo attacks than from lions. Buffalo are "just mean" he said. I took his word for it with a grain of salt until I saw this video on YouTube. Here is the link. Take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
1 comment:
Hi Wayne
How wonderful that trip must have been. West African wild life is to busy hiding so it's not eaten I suppose. But we just do not have the big game animals like the southeast.
He Wayne you can "embed" the You Tube right into your post you know. Saves people from having to follow the link. A Youtube Window appears right on your post on your blog. They just click the play button and it loads right there on your blog page. Here's how you do it. Go to the video you wnat. To the right of the video box you will see a box with Embed- Right click and then copy all the embed stuff in that box and paste it into you Blog post.
Where ever you past all the gibberish ( it about 2inces long on the post) is where the box Youtude Window comes up. It can be pasted before the Blog post text, in the middle or after. Anyway, you may not want to do this, But it's neat trick- besides making your blog look way cool :-)
Let me know how you get along.
God Bless
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