Giraffes, giraffes, everywhere Giraffes!

Rothchild's giraffee-saw so many during our tour, couldn't keep count!

Female topi antelope (along w giraffes, the most numerous animal i park

This giraffe crossed right in front of us as we snapped photos

Entrance to Ruma National Park

That describes our Amazing visit Sunday to Ruma National Park near Homa Bay, Kenya. When we left Migori at 8 AM, we thought we’d go to Lake Victoria & maybe take a ferry.  However, after a delicious  “full English breakfast” at the Homa Bay Hotel, we discovered the ferry wasn’t running due to an explosion of water lillys that appeard to choke the shores of the lake for miles.  As we’re learning to be FLEXIBLE, shifted plans & visited a nearby national park instead.  This turned out to be a great decision!  Hired a park ranger guide & spent over 4 hrs bumping over rough, unpaved park roads in search of wildlife.  And did we see it:  Rothchild’s Giraffes & topi antelope (more than we could count!), tiny oribi antelope, zebras, impalas, vervet monkeys, water buffao, bohor reedbuck & gazelles.  Birds included great crowned cranes, cattle egrets, weaver birds, marabou storks & hammerkops.   Returned to our Migori guesthouse tired, dusty, hungry but happy!  Now today it’s back to seeing patients in the two hospitals here-Kate will spend the day with 3 students at the mission hospital next door, while I accompany another team of 3 and an American doc to the district hospital about a 10” walk away.