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Tanzania 2014 Serengeti Mara Day 1A

Tanzania is in eastern Africa, just below Uganda and Kenya, and on the Indian Ocean. At the end of our eleven day/ten-night Zambia safari, we flew from Livingston to Johannesburg for an overnight stay. The next day we flew to Arusha, Tanzania via Nairobi. Arriving at Arusha Coffee Lodge at around 8 pm, we spent two nights (one full day) relaxing there before our next adventure. On the morning of 28 August 2014, our guide and driver, Nelson, picked us up at ACL in his 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser for the trip to Ngorongoro Crater. After three nights and two full days in the Crater while staying at Lemala Ngorongoro Camp, we flew by Coastal bush plane out of Manyara Airstrip to Kogatende Airstrip for four nights at Sayari Mara Camp in the remote NW corner of the Serengeti near the Mara River and the Kenyan border. Albert Alfred Lucas was our guide and driver. All arrangements for our requested Tanzanian safari from our arrival at ACL through our return to Arusha and departure from ACL on 5 September 2014 were made by Africa Travel Resource.

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Near-perfect straight position, again from a younger diver.
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Near-perfect straight position, again from a younger diver.

  • At last - super pike dive by another up-and-comer! This is rare.
  • Minimum splash from the young pike diver, and a huge adult about to land on top of him.
  • One second later : No style points, but it looks like this wildebeest is having fun!
  • Multiple, simultaneous landings!
  • Waiting until the coast is clear, she flies through the air with the greatest of ease.
  • A mishmash of takeoffs, mid-air flights, and landings. This is typically what it looked like, non-stop, for the 10 or so minutes that this crossing lasted.
  • Near-perfect straight position, again from a younger diver.
  • A high platform belly-flop about to happen.
  • Shallow water on the north side. Finding a way out of the river bank and onto flat ground is sometimes difficult.
  • Traffic jam at the best exit.
  • After a 45-second pause where no wildebeest were crossing, it starts all over again.
  • The animal in the prior picture lands, followed by two at once.
  • Two land side by side.
  • With only a momentary hesitation, they just keep coming.
  • Getting on to the end of the herd, mostly singles with a few seconds in between jumps.
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  • The last three-at-once divers.
  • A scramble to the north bank for the final group.
  • The end of this crossing sees those that crossed meandering around, organizing a herd to move further north towards the Maasai Mara in Kenya.
  • Maasai Giraffe wondering what all the excitement is about.
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