Shawn's Blog

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Man Eaters of Tsavo - The Ghost & the Darkness

Below this are all of the pictures that I didn't get to take on account of John/Pertet being too big of a prick to stop for me. I did go to Chicago a year & a half ago & saw the lions on display at the Field Museum so, I added those pictures as well.

Here are some links with more information. They are pretty interesting.

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/maneaters.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man-Eaters_of_Tsavo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_of_Tsavo

http://www.lionlamb.us/gandd.html

Mombasa

This was taken while standing in Fort Jesus.

Tsavo

Voi

Overlooking Old Mombasa

Fort Jesus

Fort Jesus-Old Mombasa

Tsavo

Mombasa

On the beach behind the hotel.

Mombasa

Mombasa-just outside of Fort Jesus.

Mombasa

Mombasa- I really liked this picture where you can see all of the people running onto the ship.

These were taken around the Mombasa area & by Fort Jesus. I did find out that the interpretation of Mombasa means I don’t understand, which fits my understanding of everyone & everything from Africa—I don’t understand you.
As you can tell I put some pictures of myself in this posting. I did so because, someone (Lindsey) said that I need to put more pictures on here with me in them.
I also had to put more of the sky. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.

Baboons part 3

This time we were trying to bait them with bananas. I was afraid to roll my window down to tempt them though. There was one baboon that was lingering around my door like he could sense that something was up. I finally worked up the nerve when he wasn’t looking at tossed a banana out the window for him & another one ran by, snatching it up & running away with it. That one that was lingering came even closer & was looking like he was wondering where in the heck his was so, we drove off before he got mad. We made one more stop & put the banana on the hood of the car trying to bait them into jumping on the hood to get it but, the baboon was too scared & just kept walking around the car like he was thinking of some way to get it from us without coming too close. I guess it is illegal to feed them so good thing we didn’t get caught.
I have a video of the second stop with the banana on the hood of the car but, I couldn’t get it to post.
Also, I didn't zoom in on any of these pictures this is how close they actually were to me.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Under the African sky

Masai Mara

Overlooking the Rift Valley

Masai Mara

Rongai

Nairobi

Malindi

There are a lot of beautiful views & the sky here is always gorgeous. I probably have more pictures of the sky than anything else. It may be kind of stupid but, whenever I start to feel down or like I am being screwed over with this whole thing, I just look at the sky & take pictures. It always cheers me up.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Camel ride on the beach

Brothers- (left to right) Abrasheed, Muhammed & Abdul. Camel- Sir George

Abdul, Muhammed & the sucker

Abrasheed, Abdul & I

Abrasheed & I

I was buying some things from this guy on the beach--which I'm guessing was illegal--& these guys saw that I was a sucker & got me to get on the camel for a picture only with no charge, turning into a ride & a charge. They were very friendly guys though. I got a really good video with them but, the internet is too crappy & won't let me load it.