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LAKE NAKURU

Monday, July 06, 2009

A TRIP TO LAKE NAKURU

If you *do* come to East Africa, you would be well advised to take at least a day for LAKE NAKURU.  A day trip from Nairobi is quite a marathon - we left the MAXWELL ADVENTIST ACADEMY campus about 4:15 a.m., and returned that night at 10:15 p.m.  A loooooooooooooooooooooooong day in a Land Cruiser, but worth every minute - especially since Kent was driving…and over here, that means a lot more than it does at home.

Lake Nakuru is well-known for the Lesser Flamingo, which feeds on the various algae that thrive in the alkaline waters of this very shallow lake.  From up on the ridge, we could easily see concentrations of flamingos at various locations all around the lakeshore,

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but with binoculars it became plain that the ENTIRE lake was dotted with innumerable flamingos….there were easily hundreds of thousands, and perhaps the million that someone promised us.  It’s an incredible sight.  The photograph also highlights the challenge for Kenya in the next decades - how to accommodate a growing population while simultaneously protecting the wildlife (meaning the habitat on which it is so totally dependent) that is her patrimony, and the source of a LOT of funds for the nation.  A propos of that last, the non-resident admission to Nakuru for 24 hours is US$60.00 each, payable in cash at time of entry.  Worth it, folks!  Right now, the town of Nakuru provides the effluent from its sewage plant to the lake—something immensely valuable in the dry season, so long as proper treatment is assured…which is something that Kenya needs to see to.

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Posted by Earl on 07/06 at 06:51 AM
2009 SUMMER TRIP - Kenya, England, Paris • LAKE NAKURU • Comments •
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