Elephant Babies!

After a leisurely breakfast, we travelled with Helen to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage for baby elephant feeding hour. While we were waiting we saw a Thomson’s gazelle nearby.

The tiny babies came first

Then the bigger ones came for their milk.

Nuzzling Noses

Eating greenery

 

Caption competition? “I can shovel my own….” ??

More milk (actually, SMA baby formula from the UK)

I can do this myself

And I can steal another bottle (but it’s an empty)

Not quite got the drinking with my trunk thing – I’ll stick my mouth in the water like other mammals

Time to go home

Helen and Me

One of the elephant stables – the keeps sleep with them on the bunk

From there we went to the Karen Blixen Coffee House, and looked at the Swedo house, the older house that Karen lived in before the house we visited on Saturday.

Elegant puss

The restaurant (we had lunch in the garden)

Jua kali (literally “hot sun”) workers work along the roaadside, this is a furniture workshop

And here they make sculptures out of metal (I’d like to take that giraffe home, but think if the excess baggage)

Then back to Helen’s for tea, packing and farewells. Asante sana Helen and James