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Teacher and her children going home from schoolFor the tourist there can be...
For the tourist there can be only one good reason to visit Nairobi, and that is as a jump off spot for a Safari (Journey). For wildlife photography that is unparelled, a Safari in Kenya will run you through 7 or 8 rolls of 36 exposure film per day. Sitting outside in the chilly evening air at the Ark, a hotel built into a hillside in the Aberdenes mountains. We had been viewing elephants, gazelles, water buffalo and other assorted wildlife coming to the water hole below us.
Then, a female elephant went berserk. She ran into two squabbling young elephants and chased them off into the brush. When she came back, she trumpeted and charged at a couple of old males, who ran off with her in pursuit.
The meanest of all African animals, a water buffalo, showed up while she was gone, and soon, he too had to turn tail and was chased away. Likewise a rhino and an impala fell victim to her anger. About an hour and a half after she started, she returned to the clearing and found no animals there, so she grabbed a tree branch and ripped it off, flinging it over her shoulder. That didn't satisfy her, so she grabbed a tree by the approximate 3 to 4 inch diameter trunk, and pulled, pushed and yanked on it until it was uprooted. She tossed it over her head and then turned and POUNCED on it, stamping it into oblivion. A hare that had been hiding nearby took this as an opportunity to escape and it ran a zig zag course towards us, above in the Ark, with the elephant hot on its heels. The rabbit hid behind a rock as the elephant stomped on the grass behind it, and waiting until the elephant's back was turned, it bounded away unseen.
