Kenya Part One - The animals

My friend Rob recently returned from a cragging trip to Australia. Amazingly (especially coming from someone as obsessed with climbing as Rob) he was raving more about the wildlife than the routes. That said he did make the climbing sound pretty damn good! Nikki and I have just returned from a brilliant trip to Kenya. We managed to climb Mount Kenya, which I'll come back to in a later post, and we also saw a load great animals. Here are some photos and a few words:

A big baboon. We saw this chap on day one of our walk in. Bloody scary really. He looked pretty mean and I was weighed down was 30kg pack and could barely move. Luckily he didn't go for me. 

A family of hyrax on the walk out from Mount Kenya. These guys look like marmots but are closely related to elephants.

Nikki kissing Stacey the giraffe at the sanctuary in Nairobi. She wussed out and wouldn't let it lick her!

Zebra...

Big cat...

Big cat having lunch... 

A close relation of Duncan Campbell.

A shed load of baboons in Masi Mara. Not quite as scary as this time I was in a truck.

Elephant...

Big birds...

A buffalo and his friend... 

Never smile at a...

Giraffe crossing the road. Standard.

Big pretty bird whose name escapes me...

Be afraid...

Me snogging Stacey. 

Lady cheetah...

Guinea fowl - I think.

Hippos... 

This guy was just crossing the road.