Day 124...Buffalo soldier! - 28th October

Woke up a little later at 7 am for some breakky. Then we hopped into the van for some game driving!
Lake Nakuru's park is now rivalling Amboseli as the second mos tvisited park after the Mara. Nakuru is a shallow soda lake (like most in the Rift Valley) and was well known for its huge pink flamingo population. You know all the photos of a rhino running through pink flamingoes? Well its here.
However for a number of years the water level has decreased to the point where the huge flamingo population have sought better areas, mainly Lake Bogoria.
Apart from the flat grassland, it is also surrounded by bush, acacia forests and rocky cliffs which support hundreds of birds and animals. THere are no elephant here, but an incredible number of rhinos (both black and white), waterbucks, bufaloes, gazelles, rock dussies, baboons etc.

We hit a family of baboons on our way out and I forced Stanley to stop. He hates baboons so it took all our cajoling to get him to stay. They were pretty cool - not as rude and dirty as the Zimbabwean baboons so that was a bit disappointing. Stanley drove off in relief when we left. He said he loves leopard the best, and hates baboons the most.