Crescent Island

While we were in Kenya to take Jonah to RVA– we had a free day while he was in school -before we headed back home.  We decided to use our day by driving down the hill about an hour to a place called Crescent Island (fact: not an island) close to Naivasha.

dsc05478The animals were apparently brought here for the filming of 1980’s Academy Award winning film: Out of Africa (fun fact: Susan and I just watched it for the first time when we were in France this summer. Wow. Apparently really long, depressing movies were the thing 30 years ago)

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just verifying the fact that – yes, a hippo would chomp off your upper body with one bite

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There is not much to say about this place – but merely see. So here are some pictures of what we experienced there:dsc05483



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