Sabuk Lodge was very different from Lewa camp. Game drives at Lewa were made in four wheel drive vehicles which were able to get very close to the animals and allow some marvellous close up pictures to be taken. In contrast, we spent most of our time at Sabuk on walking drives; we were not able to get so near to the animals as at Lewa but somehow it felt that we were able to see them in a more natural setting. Sabuk is perched high up on the side of a river gorge and is unfenced so there is a constant stream of elephants coming to drink; as well as elephants, we saw lions, giraffes, zebras – the more common kind in great profusion as well as the rarer grevy zebra, impala and warthog. However the leopard remained elusive.
At the end of our stay, our guide Robert and gun bearer Kumbak posed for this picture with Juliet Bravo at Loisaba airstrip. Note the thorn branches round the wheels to prevent the tyres from being eaten!
The flight back to Nairobi Wilson took an hour and we climbed to FL105 to get above the turbulent hot air. Once again Wilson was very busy with scheduled CAT and light trainers doing circuits. We are staying at the East Africa Aero Club, convenient as I can walk round to DAC Aviation tomorrow morning and discuss the 50 hour check to be done on Juliet Bravo.
The Delorme tracker is now working again and I have deleted our outbound route to make it easier to follow us on our homebound route when we set off on Wednesday.
148nm done in 1 hour.