Sunday 11th September 2016: There are two options for today. Go on a 5 ½ hour round trip to see flamingos or do an early game drive and have a massage. John chooses the first option and I go for the second, even though it means getting up early again. We see 3 white rhinos close up and Egyptian Geese in a pretty setting. Two male lions have walked across a road, so we speed there, but there is no sign of them. The massage is great and I have a bit of time to catch up on the blogs before the afternoon game drive, when we see heaps of baboons play acting, zebras in number and huge herds of buffalo - no lion up a tree though. The Nakuru Lake has risen so much that the original entrance is now under water and there are dead trees right around the edge. All lakes in the area are rising and it is thought they may all be connected to an underground water source that is rising as Africa is said to be in drought, even though we have seen some very lush green areas. The trees on the edge of the lake are Yellow Barked Acacia, with no tap root, so easily blown over. Their common name is 'fever trees' due to their yellow bark and they grew in marshy areas where yellow fever was common, hence the connection.

Flamingo Trip: Getting John's views. Drove through the farming land that belonged to Lord Delamere with corn and cereal crops and then back into small holdings with animals all over the roadside. Sisal growing and used to make rope and a broom factory with lots of white fibre hanging behind it. Lots of honey for sale on the sides of the road. Into the park and lake with lots of flamingos on it. The flamingos used to be here on the Nakuru Lake but since the water table has been rising the water has become brackish and the algae that the flamingos feed on has reduced so they have moved to Lake Bogoria.