Another Crazy Weekend!

Phew! This weekend like most of our weekends so far was quite hectic. If you read one of my earlier posts there was a dirt bike race in Soysambu in order to raise some money. Well this weekend there was another race but instead of dirt bikes they were some kind of buggy like vehicle. It all started on Saturday where we had to spend 4 hours registering the racers that were entering the conservancy. After that Kerry, Jackie (who is a volunteer in Nakuru visiting for the weekend), I decided to ask Duncan if we could go for a walk to the lake. He made some calls and after the three of us took a half an hour nap at the research center, our guide arrived. Our guide Laoso, was very nice although he didn't have much protection with him aside from a wooden pole which didn't seem very promising incase we had to face a buffalo. We luckily didn't get rained on during our hike to the lake and it wasn't too hot. Later after the hike we played some cards the three of us and then made eggs for dinner out of laziness and went to bed.

Sunday was a much more exciting and fun day. We were originally planned to sleep in till 9am but Kat offered to take us on a morning game drive through Soysambu so we decided to wake up early for that instead. This was an amazing game drive because the view of the lake and pelicans was so clear and not too hot and we saw over 20 Rothschild Giraffes as well. After the game drive Kat dropped us off at the rally/race where all the buggies were. There we were going to meet Duncan but he didn't arrive for about an hour so we killed the time by talking and going on a small stroll with Lord Delamere. Boy did he have a lot of stories about his history and the conservancy but he was also quite funny and a character for sure. We had some local hamburgers for lunch at the race, which were extremely delicious and talked to a bunch of the racers, but of course there were only six so it wasn't too much of a crowd. After the race we all cleaned up the trash there and Duncan and I found a warthog and zebra skull but we didn't carry them to the research center due to the fact that they were covered in safari ants which bite you badly. We all met together at the monkey bridge campsite for some food and drinks and then returned to the research center where we met Zoe who is a very well known giraffe researcher from the UK and her assistant Les from New Zealand. For the rest of the day I did some school work and played cards, made dinner, and went to bed in hope that I wouldn't wake up to the buffalo again.