At sunset: flower with a delightful fragrance which wafts over our back step - Rift valley in the background. This is Rochelle's yoga spot in the morning

On a tough bone marrow case from a 12 month old, Rochelle actually used a counter! In the days here thus far, these cases have come from very sick children, with minimal other history or ancillary studies.

Ginger has mastered the gross room and is moving on to microscopic diagnoses! Nothing stands in the way of the curious.

Looking over part of the 4,500mi great Rift Valley, en route out and down from Kijabe (at 6500ft) to Lake Nakuru for the weekend

The volume of water in Lake Nakuru is driven mainly by rainfall and evaporation - no rivers drain it. This level of flooding has been present for months, and hasn't been seen for at least 30 yrs prior. 

From our hotel room

A blurry action shot, prior to the nightly traditional dancing (which we got to join in, briefly)

On Saturday's park/safari drive, Phillip found many fine beasts and reasons to wax philosophical.  Here, an impala

Buffalo with a baby. Apparently, if alone, a buffalo will charge, but as a heard, are more easily scared off

Lots of giraffe, chewing on acacia trees and thorny bushes.
In an unprompted and delightful conversation, one of the hotel staff - who grew up around Mt Kenya - shared with us some of his experiences with "game."  Unlike most 4-legged creatures, giraffes move the front and back leg on the same side (right or left) at the same time.  And apparently, lions usually won't mess with giraffe because of their kick, which is 3x as powerful as a zebra kick.

At "Out of Africa" outlook, overlooking Lake Nakuru. Is that a lucky shirt?

Zebras.
"He explained that the broad diagonal stripes on a zebra's flank and the narrower vertical stripes on its back and neck give unexpected motion signals that confuse viewers, particularly in a herd of zebras."We suggest that these illusions cause pests and predators to mistake the zebra's movement direction, causing biting insects to abort their landing manoeuvres and chasing predators to mistime their attacks," said Dr How"
I'm still wondering about the biological magic of how each hair cell knows what to do.

Adventurers at the lookout

Apparently, flamingoes usually eat Spirulina, which lives in the alkaline waters of the Lake and plays a role in their pink coloring

Honeysuckle the size of my hand!

Children dressed in their Sunday best, over Lake Elementaita, en route back to Kijabe
Rochelle's birthday!