For my last field trip before my departure, Elizabeth and her colleague Chelimo took me to see Lake Bogoria and surrounding areas, which are approximately 3 hours’ drive from Eldoret.
View of a tiny portion of Lake Bogoria, a saline and alkaline lake with geysers and hot springs. Although not many living things inhabit the lake, it does have a lot of blue-green algae to feed a very large population of flamingoes that makes Lake Bogoria its home, at least in the areas of the lake where the water is not scalding hot!
Bus loads of touring students join our fascination with a spewing geyser and accompanying hot spring (below).
Chelimo says that this hot spring is so hot that one can boil eggs in it.
And lo! Someone just did boil some eggs in the spring!
Except where the water is too hot, the rim of Lake Bogoria is thickly lined with pink flamingoes.
The flamingoes are spooked as I creep nearer. I can't seem to get close enough to take a really good photo of these fascinating birds in varying combinations of pink, black, and white colors.
On the road to Lake Bogoria, we spot female ostriches in a field beside the road.
Everything seems nice and peaceful until the male ostriches decide to crash the party.
And in typical male fashion, the males get into a ferocious fight.
The fight winner succeeds in chasing off his competition...
... and then he proceeds to chase after the females.
After seeing the lake, we decided to check out Lake Bogoria Hotel, where I see what look like storks atop acacia trees on the hotel property.
A closer look at a stork.
Here's another stork on the hotel lawn.
Also abundant on the hotel property are these vervet monkeys. As you see, the pigmentation of the male vervet monkey's scrotum is a vivid blue.
The vervet monkey also sports a very long tale.
The vervet monkey is a small animal. Here Elizabeth feeds banana to one, while another one sits nearby watching.
He's just popped the piece of banana in his mouth!
An example of many like ant hills (or ant castles?) in the areas near Lake Bogoria.
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