Photos & text copyright Yasir Khan 2008Willie, our driver, woke us up to see Kenya's tallest peak.
"Soon we will cross the equatah."
We had been driving for a couple of hours, heading to the Shaba National Reserve - about 300km north of Nairobi, where we were to spend 2 days at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge. Normally, we wouldn't be able to afford this palace in the wild. But these are special times in Kenya. The croc you see above was pretty much right outside our room window. Cairomaniac was convinced that crocs can jump, and issued many stern warnings for me to keep my distance. Obviously, she's watched a lot of When Animals Attack and not enough Animal Planet. Needless to say, the croc stayed put. Crikey!
When I tell people about crossing the equator, everybody asks about the water - does it change the direction of the flow when you flush the toilet? Sure enough, there's a guy by the equator sign with a jug of water and a plastic tub with a hole in the bottom."Would you like to see a demonstration?"
"No thanks."
I didn't want to pay money to see water go down a hole. Honestly, I'm not the least bit curious.
"Then maybe you can look in my shop? Buy something to keep us going? There have been no tourists lately."
2 comments:
Crocs can jump if there is a chicken involved! Especially the big saltwater ones near Darwin. Good thing you weren't in Oz.
Alligators in Florida like chicken too.
I've never heard of crocs jumping for Yasir, though.
The Coriolis Effect on the Kenyan equator isn't real??? Say it isn't so!
:)
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