The incredible, steep, strikingly dramatic and beautiful Ndoto Mountains!! this time I focus on Upe the second highest peak, which I climbed with some of the family this month!.. Every year, we as a family, try to climb a special mountain or rock to remember Simon.. LAST YEAR OUR DESTINATION WAS THE INCREDIBLE ROCK […]
Category Archives: Wildlife
When I first set foot in the MILGIS LUGGA, the huge dry river that divides the Ndoto and Lenkiyou mountain ranges, it captured me.. It was 1990… I was mesmerised by its wildness, its beauty, the danger, the grandness of this huge sandy lugga!! One of the dangers was the wirey, almost grey lanky lions, […]
Droughts are sent to try us and this one sure did.. In Northern Kenya basically it did not rain except the odd shower here and there for a whole year!.. thats a long time when its hot, windy and dry!.. Its an amazing thing, as the night before the rain came, 29th April we were […]
Good day from Bamako! You are receiving this email, which comes with an opportunity to do something extraordinary. See details in the following website: http://barakachallenge.org/ I have been training for the Marathon des Sables for a year and will fly to Ouarzazate to start the race next week, on the 7th of April. It’s been […]
A fire that went on burning for over a week, and over 1200 acres of valuable northern Kenya forest burn’t… this is Matthews peak on fire… We were luckily about 20 kms away from it on safari but we all felt awfall, as we watched it with sadness as it gobbled this beautiful land mark […]
YES… it is what you think it is… Its a young Elephant that drowned in this well… It fell in head first and nothing to do.. he was gone probably quite quick!! Abit shocking but its the reality of drought.. Times are hard and this isn’t the only sad image we’ve seen… We’ve been out […]
WHO ON EARTH HAD THE TIME TO PILE ALL THESE ROCKS LIKE THIS IN THE CHALBI DESERT!!?? ALL ALONG THE LAVA THERE ARE THESE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCLES AND PILES,! JUST ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL CHALBI SUNSET! THE MAN ON THE LEFT, GELEGELE, OUR SCOUT FROM NGURNIT, SAYS WHO ON EARTH HAD THE TIME TO DO ALL THIS […]
Desert Water Towers Hi all, Digby here – I have been incredibley lucky to be getting involved with the Milgis and hope to see off many good years in this area. The Milgis family is better than I could have ever imagined! anyway here […]
Elephants drinking at midday, the Magnificent Milgis lions roaring, and hunting dogs in our camp! Elephants generally like to drink, wallow, play and have fun at midday but our Northern Elephants have not had that pleasure for nearly 40 years… I’ve been in the area for 30 of those 40 years and a week ago from […]
