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I have waited for this day to come since I can remember. Most girls dream & have a Pinterest board for their wedding day; I dream & have a Pinterest board for adventures, travel and one day seeing an elephant and animals in the wild where it is suppose to be. For a girl from Indiana this isn’t the norm! I remember at boarding school I loved my anthropology class and writing papers about deforestation and habitat loss for animals and why we should fix this. But honestly I didn’t know this was a career path I could take. So I ending up working with horses for years. Then decided to take my love of photography and create a career. Burned out with portrait and event photography and not feeling great physically, in 2016 I was down with another whats wrong with my body situation. Frustrated, I started investigating, researching info about Africa and came across SafariLive. This re-sparked my love of wildlife and Africa. And I knew then, someway, somehow, I would visit this majestic country! Honestly, why I went into photography was to one day be wildlife photographer.

With hard work, saving and sacrifice, the day came in August of this year when I traveled with WanderingThru, a boutique safari operator offering tailor-made and privately guided safaris! WOO HOO!

I was lucky to experience this trip with some amazing folks. I travel with WanderingThru guide & wildlife photographer Tristan Dicks, and Diana (D1) and Dianna (D2). On the left is our awesome guide from Little Governors Camp, Jackson!

I had no expectations on my trip. I let mother nature show me what she had planned. Our little bush plane landed on a dirt air strip on the banks of a marsh. I was in awe of the vast grassland as acacia trees dotting the landscape. There are over 40 species of acacia trees in Kenya. the acacia tree is often that classic image of a tree silhouetted against the African savannah. Also, the sounds and smells of the Masai Mara was something I have never experienced before.

Our first stop was the Masa Maria was at Little Governors Camp. Located on the edge of the Masai Mara National Reserve, the camp is accessed by a short boat ride across the Mara River to tents placed on the bank of a marsh. Elephants graze in the marsh, hippos make a lot of noise ( I could hear them grazing at night outside my tent!) and the warthogs keep the grass mowed! 

I will be blogging about the animals I spotted on the Masai Mara Reserve in separate posts. Also about our second stop at the Mara Naboisho Conservancy. Which is a private conservancy located in adjacent to the Masai Mara National Reserve.

Next up will be my FAVORITE big cat of Africa, the leopard!

So stay tuned!