Africa Wild

Dedicated a couple of hours downloading a few ebooks for my iPad, don't want to carry books around so ebooks are the best solution.
Sasol, Newmans and Birds of East Africa downloaded and installed. Money well spent!
Wanted to download Collins Bird Guide but can't find it in ebook version so will have to do with above.

On the photographic equipement have it all sorted out and just needs packing:
D800E + D90 (as backup) both with power packs and extra batteries
Nikon 80-400 mm - Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8G - Sigma 300 mm f/2.8 - Nikon 105 mm f/2.8 - Nikon 85 mm f/1.8 - Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G
Teleconverters x1.7 + x2.0
Nikon flash + Macro flash R1C1
Monopod
Tons of memory for both cameras
2 external hard disks x 2T each
Macbook Pro
Wife
Son

Thats it, anything more and I'll have to hire someone to carry it all for me.

Have I forgotten anything important

Money?

Sunscreen?

Booze as allowed...you will pay maximum in Kenya?

What a spoilt boy! Books are much better than the tech stuff! Act your age!

Sasol is best!

Money
Sunscreen - don't need it while my other half will need +500 screen
Booze I don't usually drink but Kenya beer is great and cheap

Spoilt boy??? absolutely! Every once and a while a little luxury and spoiling is good for soul. This year it goes that way while next year I'll probably rough it in New York or some other boring place around the world.

Rumuruti wrote:Money
Sunscreen - don't need it while my other half will need +500 screen
Booze I don't usually drink but Kenya beer is great and cheap

Spoilt boy??? absolutely! Every once and a while a little luxury and spoiling is good for soul. This year it goes that way while next year I'll probably rough it in New York or some other boring place around the world.

This is all very interesting as regards profiling you...CSI stuff...

Nice reply.

I envy you!

That’s a seriously “poor little tent”

Some cool camera kit

Rumuruti wrote:Dedicated a couple of hours downloading a few ebooks for my iPad, don't want to carry books around so ebooks are the best solution.
Sasol, Newmans and Birds of East Africa downloaded and installed. Money well spent!
Wanted to download Collins Bird Guide but can't find it in ebook version so will have to do with above.

On the photographic equipement have it all sorted out and just needs packing:
D800E + D90 (as backup) both with power packs and extra batteries
Nikon 80-400 mm - Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8G - Sigma 300 mm f/2.8 - Nikon 105 mm f/2.8 - Nikon 85 mm f/1.8 - Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G
Teleconverters x1.7 + x2.0
Nikon flash + Macro flash R1C1
Monopod
Tons of memory for both cameras
2 external hard disks x 2T each
Macbook Pro
Wife
Son

Thats it, anything more and I'll have to hire someone to carry it all for me.

Have I forgotten anything important

Interesting order!

Looking forward to this

cool tent

Evening folks.

Here we go with a first posting on my trip, - 2 days!.

Many of you know that I was born in Kenya an lived there for many years before moving to Italy. I still have two sisters living there, plus a brother living in Tanzania, and during my last trip I visited both and had a memorable trip.
This time I decided it would a strictly family trip and will try and make it as enjoyable as possible.

Our first week will be passed at our family home in Diani Beach which is located along the south coast of Kenya. Beach front and with a marvelous garden full of birds, monkeys and various domestic animals (dogs, cats, parrots, domestic pigs, peacocks, ducks and so on). Total relax, photography and meeting up with old friends which means afternoon tea, braai and maybe a couple of cold beers....maybe a couple more!
Right next door we have the Colobus Conservation Centre and thats why I say we have monkeys of 4 different species (baboon, colobus, sykes and vervet) permanently in the garden. http://www.colobusconservation.org/

On 23rd July we'll be flying out from the coast to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, which is the Kenyan extension of the Serengeti National Park, and will be staying in an exclusive luxury tented camp for 3 nights and flying back to the coast on the 26th.
http://olumara.com
This part of the trip is and will be entirely dedicated to photography as this is the period of te Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti Plains into the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Millions of Wildebeests, zebra, antelopes, gazzelle and whatever else migrate and it is considered one of the wonders of nature. A must for every lover of nature, Africa and photography.

From 26th to the 30th we have four days of total relax and then fly out back to Europe on the 30th of July.

Two weeks dedicated to my family, family members living there and ....................

Hope to be back on friday with the beginning of my story and pics.

Rumuruti wrote: Booze I don't usually drink but Kenya beer is great and cheap

Enjoy!

enjoy... enjoy the rest