Michuki Plays Host to Crocodile … along Nairobi River

Above: Crocodile at Michuki Park Nairobi 8 May 2021Credit Joy Arividza Published: Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper 12 June 2021 The clouds threatened to burst on the Saturday morning in Nairobi but did not, for it would have made birding very hard in the rain. Standing at the entrance of Nairobi Museum that is nearly a […]

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Lukenya’s Panorama of a 360 world

Above: On Lukenya ridge. Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: Saturday Nation magazine 30 November 2019 On the ancient granite rock-filled ridge of Lukenya, it’s a 360-degree view of Africa. A mountain climber from the Mountain Club of Kenya is scaling a vertical wall of an immense rock face, his tiny figure carefully inching his way up […]

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Underground River, Coffee and Birding in Juja

Above: Osprey in Juja. Copyright James Kashangaki  Published: 5 January2019 When Elspeth Huxley penned the Flame Trees of Thika, the road out of Nairobi in 1913 was very different from the Thika super-highway we are driving on to reach Juja, 40 kilometres away. Her description from the novel is of her as a six-year old […]

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