http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4FEn-ZKdDg
Morning game drive- A serval (Felis serval) slinks through the grass. It looks like a 35-pound house cat with the markings of a cheetah. Our beautiful specimen disappears.
There is some radio chatter and we are off and do not slow down for the herd of water buffalo, gazelles or birds. We hit a dip, the van suspension bottoms out and Donna’s head bangs into a grab rail and brings tears to her eyes. She sucks it up, pulls her sunglasses tight, forces a smile and indicates that we should continue. There is a cluster of vehicles including a double- decker in the valley. A pride of five lions are napping in the grass but they are so low that only to top floor of the bus gets a good view.
More chatter on the radio and we are rolling again. We come upon two other game vehicles and park to watch a lioness on the hillside. She pokes her head up then disappears into the grass. We wait and watch. She reemerges and saunters down the hill and crosses the road between two of the vehicles. She slips away, barely giving us a glance.
We pass a young lion with a face full of flies on the ride back to the lodge. 
At breakfast I ask our waiter about the electric fence. He says it is solar powered with a battery back up and is DC current. This seems plausible; I do not test the fence during a power outage period.After breakfast I sit on the back porch of the room with the intent of catching up on my journal. A 3-foot monitor lizard catches my eye and I get off a couple of shots before he scurries down to the riverbank.
Two doves do a mating dance that ends with them sitting on the ground and each folding a wing back in unison. 
On the afternoon drive we saw an old bull elephant with a broken tusk and hole in one ear. 
A Black-Shouldered kite was on a dead branch clutching a fresh rodent kill.
A secretary bird was minding a treetop nest. Two smaller birds were perched nearby. 
The cud chewing water buffalo and with the Yellow-Billed Oxpecker on his back looked content. 
For our last dinner the GM sent over a cake. They were glad to have our business and we are a fun bunch to have around on vacation. The present was much appreciated.Some other guests pass through the lodge during our stay including a Chinese couple. The wife spoke prefect English and is a magazine editor in Cairo. A pleasant German couple were on their forth trip to Kenya.
