Today we visited the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust center. We were told we would be seeing baby elephants. We were both a bit lukewarm about the visit as we had seen a fair amount of baby elephants in the last month or so. However, we are both very glad we decided to go.
The Sheldrick takes in orphaned baby elephants whose mothers
have died or somehow been separated from the babies. And watching these babies was so fun. Feeding time starts around 11:00. The tourists were all lined up around a roped
off area and the next thing we know the babies came barreling in one or two a time,
headed straight for the care takers and pretty noisily demanded their bottles.
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Baby elephants and their bottles video
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Baby elephants and bottles 2 video
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After drinking their one or two bottles they drank (or threw) water around…
played in the mud pool,
and threw dust and mud over themselves.
The dirt here is pretty red so all of the 13 calves were liberally caked in red.
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Water, dust, and mud video
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Mud hole video
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Scratching video
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More Baby Elephants
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The Trust is doing such a wonderful job of rescuing the babies. They have managed to reintroduce about 100 elephants back into the wild...a process that takes five years or longer. Such dedication.
It was so fun. And we both got rather splattered with the very red mud. Took a while to get it out once we got back to the hotel. But it was so worth it.
From the Sheldrick we headed over to the home of Karen
Blixen, author of “Out of Africa” (made into a movie staring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford) and a few other books.
It was very interesting (no photos inside the house) and
gardens were lovely.
The farm originally was a coffee plantation, so we also saw some of the coffee processing equipment.
There was also some very old farm equipment parked on the lawn.
Most interesting.
After our tour there we headed back to the hotel for
relaxing and packing. Tomorrow we leave
for Zanzibar.
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