Jailbreak!

Guess I should have cleaned off my camera lens!  Actually, these guys were stampeding across the ground in front of us and threw up all this dust.  Seems that Zebra are as afraid of Jeeps as they are of lions.  Actually, they are part of the great migration, joining that million or so wildebeest ("gnu" to you old-timers) on the way to Kenya.

So, I have taken temporary control of the blog.  Being a Henry - for those of you who wouldn't know - this could take a while.

Random thoughts from a fellow safarian.  Khaki is the new black.  Jeeps should test their shocks and springs on game drive vehicles.  Bucket showers will never replace hot and cold running water.  It's not exactly a Geisha situation when you know the shower is ready when some guy knocks on the wall and says "It's ready". 

Interesting that in the Ngorongoro crater, where we are now, the lions have learned to let the hyenas do the hunting, and then they steal the "kill".  (It's usually the hyenas that do the clean up work.)  We have gone from the lap of roughing it (if you call having hot water bottles in your beds and antiques and linens all around roughing it) to the lap of, well what can I say, crazy luxury.  We don't even have to go on a game drive, we just walk out the door and the "resident" zebras will pose with you.

The shame here at the crater is that it has been so dry that the salt water pond is all but dried up, and the tens of thousands of flamingos are down to the tens of flamingos - literally.

Yesterday we caught a pride of lions and two of the females took off after a warthog.  To tell you the truth, I couldn't hold my "king of the jungle" head up if a WARTHOG could escape me - especially me and my sister!  Well - he did.  You could tell the cubs were thinking - "Mom, a warthog?  You've got to be kidding."  Then we watched four hyenas chase around a small herd of cape buffalo, only to also come up empty handed.  We also saw the "rare" black rhino - Mom and kiddo - if you call seeing two blacks spots at half a mile away as "seeing" something.

Final thought for the day.  What do you think (without using Google) is the meaning of the oft-heard phrase (this is spelled phonetically):  "Poa, ka-cheezey common deezie."

(OK, I'll give you the answer.  It means:  "Cool as a banana.")