The Indian Ocean rolls into Dar

The Indian Ocean rolls into Dar
Seb and Dom and Indian Ocean

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Ngorongoro Conservation Area - June 2011


These are the animals we saw at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area:
A caracal, guinea fowl, baboons, zebras, elephants, wildebeests, buffaloes, hyenas, ducks, Thomson's gazelles, Grant's gazelles, grey crowned cranes, ostriches, kori bustards, warthogs, hartebeests, a buzzard, black kites, lions, buffalo weavers, an African fish eagle, a tawny eagle, jackals, a rhinoceros, saddle-billed stork, vultures, francolins, flamingos, a red-billed stork and a yellow-billed stork.

Here are pictures of some of the animals we saw:


A Caracal
Gazelles
These are both Tomson's Gazelles. They are smaller than Grant's Gazelles and have a black stripe on the side, which Grant's Gazelles do not have.





Buffaloes
The birds sitting on the buffalo are called buffalo weavers.

Lions

A female lion is lying on the road in the shade of a car



















Wildebeest


Zebras

Hyenas

A Rhino


Jackals

Warthogs






Tarangire National Park - June 2011

In Tarangire National Park we saw:
Warthogs, impalas, wildebeests, zebras, superb starlings, giraffes, baboons, ostriches, waterbucks, woodpecker, blacksmith plovers, mongooses, vervet (blue) monkeys, buffaloes, elephants, geese, a secretary bird, dik diks, bats, rats, rabbits, a black striped snake, jackals, bat-eared foxes, steenbok, spring hare, a chameleon, marabou storks, genet cats, southern ground hornbills, spurfowl, canaries, an owl, sunbirds and the African fish eagle.


Here are some pictures of the animals we saw:


Secretary Bird


Wildebeest


Ostriches & Zebras


                                                                 Impala

Giraffe
 There is a woodpecker on this giraffes foot  

Dik dik



Elephants
  





Chameleon



Friday, July 1, 2011

Saadani National Park - visited in April 2011

In Saadani we saw giraffes, black-faced vervet monkeys, waterbucks, Lichtenstein hartebeests, Eurasian rollers, doves, guinea fowls, southern brown hornbills, African hoopoos, reedbucks, wildebeests, widers, yellow baboons, banded mongooses, elephants, warthogs, sandsnakes.

Saadani National Park - visited in April 2011