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Tanzania 2014 Serengeti Mara Day 3

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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A Black Rhinoceros female and her calf. It was reported that there are only 4 or 5 of these animals in NW Serengeti. Over two quarter-day periods of searching, we saw only this pair and one nearby male (next photo), and we had to drive a long way from Camp to get here. At this site, another "jeep" was careless, got too close and spooked all three of them causing them to retreat on the run just about the time we got there. This photo and the next three are severely cropped shots made at 500mm on a full-frame Nikon DSLR; I estimate that the effective focal length of these cropped photos is about 1,000mm.
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A Black Rhinoceros female and her calf. It was reported that there are only 4 or 5 of these animals in NW Serengeti. Over two quarter-day periods of searching, we saw only this pair and one nearby male (next photo), and we had to drive a long way from Camp to get here. At this site, another "jeep" was careless, got too close and spooked all three of them causing them to retreat on the run just about the time we got there. This photo and the next three are severely cropped shots made at 500mm on a full-frame Nikon DSLR; I estimate that the effective focal length of these cropped photos is about 1,000mm.

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  • A Black Rhinoceros female and her calf. It was reported that there are only 4 or 5 of these animals in NW Serengeti. Over two quarter-day periods of searching, we saw only this pair and one nearby male (next photo), and we had to drive a long way from Camp to get here. At this site, another "jeep" was careless, got too close and spooked all three of them causing them to retreat on the run just about the time we got there. This photo and the next three are severely cropped shots made at 500mm on a full-frame Nikon DSLR; I estimate that the effective focal length of these cropped photos is about 1,000mm.
  • Within sight of the female and calf in the preceding picture was this male Black Rhinoceros, steaming ahead full after having been spooked by a "jeep" that carelessly got too close just as we arrived on the scene.
  • The female and calf, having run for about half a mile and now at some distance from the offending jeep, slow down to a walk as they head for the bush.
  • The make kept on running, until all three disappeared into the tall bush and trees.
  • Two Lilac-breasted Rollers.
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  • All of those adult Lions in the prior four photos were watching this herd of wildebeest. Some of these Lions will probably move out on the hunt toward this herd after the sun sets.
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