Day two, jambo! We flew from the Mara across the plains and over the Aberdare Mountains to Lake Naivasha. A sensuous flight, which included flower farms, termite mounds and weaver birds making their nests. This is the bird breeding season so the widow bird males have long tails to attract the females and protect their nest, and the weaver birds fight for tree space and their women!
We flew across the swamps around Lake Naivasha and saw the hippos moving around in their paddling pools! Water buck ran away from their movement but were undiminished by ours.
The squirrel is a beautiful but (sorry) squirrelly machine to fly, until you get used to it. Since I am a left-footed anti-clockwise pilot I am used to one way of taking off and landing and my first take-off involved a lots of shilly shallying and nearly ended with us facing the bush 90 degrees to the left of the nose! They got better... I am learning. Each hour gets a little easier.
We stayed in Lake Naivasha at a really beautiful place alongside the lake.
kwa heri!
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