Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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6 Box 20110, Nairobi, Kenya. Phone 748170. Fax 746868). Michaelides is a member of this society. Talked to Aaran Eric T. Hanha, membership officer, and Diana Sigei. They have 7,000 individuals and 300 corporations as members, about 3,000 are East Africans. Their membership turnover in a decade is about 13,000. Membership in U.S. $ is 38. Their main publication is Swara (the Swahili for impala), and they print 10,000 copies. They also publish, through Blackwells, a scientific journal, the African Journal of Ecology. 7.8% of Kenya is wildlife sanctuaries by area. Kenya had a population of 6.5 million in 1963 at the time of independence. In 1995 the population is 24 million. The biggest challenge is wildlife/people interactions, but no longer poaching. We left, to go to Kenya Wildlife Services. En route, at our request, we drove through a nicer black subdivision, and there were stalls/shops on the way in. Jane talked with women in a sewing machine stall. We continued to Kenya Wildlife Services. Talked to Joe Kioko. Their offices are at the gates of the Nairobi National Park. Richard Leakey had these buildings built. He was dramatic in the wildlife service, stopped poaching, and has since been forced out. But the service has not much changed, according to Kioko. Again, their biggest problem is not poaching but wildlife/people interactions. The Masai people do not eat wild game. They think God gave the cows to them. That is why some of the best sanctuaries are in Masai country. African pied wagtail about the grounds here. Nappia grass. Many were carrying bundles of it about to feed their cattle. Ground squirrel, seen about the grounds here. The Rift Valley in Kenya is the same geological formation as in Israel. This valley runs 8,700 km. from Israel and the Dead Sea to Mozambique. Mt. Kenya is the only place in the world where there is snow on the equator. Tourism is the largest foreign exchange industry. We lunched in a pizza place in a very nice, brand new shopping center. Continued to the PCEA Kikuyu hospital. This is about 50 km. north of Nairobi in a quite rural area, somewhat past the village of Kikuyu. Hospital is spread out in a number of one-story buildings, looking as much like a conference ground or camp as a hospital. No sooner had we walked on the grounds than Stan Topple walked by, the head physician here, with whom I was in Davidson College, over forty years ago, and I could still recognize him. Dr. Stan Topple, PCEA Kikuyu Hospital, P. O. Box 45, Kikuyu, Kenya. Fax 254 154 32413. He is the surgeon here, especially for orthopaedic surgery. He was in Korea many years, has been here six years or so, along with his wife, who is a dermatologist, and Norwegian, Mia Topple. He met her in Korea. He has found especially important the support of the Medical Benevolence Foundation, Houston, TX. He gave us a tour of the hospital. We walked through one of the patients' and children's wards. There is a lot of club foot in African children; he thinks it is the result of inbreeding. As we left, met Glen James Hallead, coming up from Nairobi. We were later to see him at Mt. Kenya Country Club. He coordinates visitors from the U.S. They have had perhaps 100 so far this
7 year. Leaving the hospital complex, we went to see the nearby Church of the Torch. This is a large, Gothic church, somewhat curiously placed on this rural African landscape. We met coming out a man named John Ngethe (Kikuyu Nursery of the Primary School, Box 198, Kikuyu, Kenya). He was a teacher, is now clerk of session in the church. We walked with him to the old church, white, built in 1908 or so. Then we went to a nearby school with small children and visited several classrooms. They have few or no materials to work with and no electricity. Returned to Nairobi, stopping at a coffee plantation on the way back. Some donkeys seen along the way. Then we went to Chris Michaelides' home for tea. A buffalo skull and horns is on the outside of the house, this one nearly killed him. He shot two buffalo that were giving trouble in crop fields and tracked one of them into the woods. It charged and he pushed its horns down and was thrown entirely over it. Inside, he showed us a python skin, some 16 feet long. This too nearly killed him. It got him and was squeezing him, even though he shot its head up. A friend helped him get out. He had one broken rib from the squeezing. We called home and got Shonny from here. On returning to the hotel, the kiosk shops that were nearby had been torn down. June 21. Wednesday. Breakfast at the Jacaranda Hotel. Stored luggage there, then took taxi to the Norfolk Hotel. Checked in. We were soon called for a briefing at 10.00 a.m. Tour members: Dorothy Minnucci, 305 Ferris Lane, New Britain, PA 189091. Jerry Minnucci, 1682 Caminito Playa, Glendale, CA 91208. Her son-in-law, who often travels with her. He is in television motion pictures. Pat Jubb, 3455 Hartsock Ln, Colorado Springs, CO 80917. Her husband, formerly, was in the navy. Retired in Colorado Springs. Susie Wittier, 10385 Raygor Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80908. Schoolteacher, doing mostly guidance. The Norfolk hotel opened Christmas in 1904. Teddy Roosevelt, when ex-president in 1909 left the Norfolk on the biggest safari ever to leave here, 500 porters. He went through Uganda, Kenya, the then Belgian Congo, and the Sudan. He was gone several months. Then we walked around to a bookstore, Text Book Centre to which Michaelides had earlier taken us, very good bookstore. I bought the Serengeti book, Savage Paradise, and mailed it home. It cost as much to mail it as to buy it. Back to hotel room for lunch. Then we walked to town and browsed shops. The town is full of shops with lots of hawkers trying to sell safaris to you. I bought a broad-brim hat. Back at hotel, I phoned CSU philosophy dept. June 22, Thursday. Our tour guide is Abraham, or Ibrahim. We drove north in a good minibus. Passed Kenyatta University, on the edge of Nairobi. Drove by lots of pineapple plantations, owned
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Page 3 and 4: 1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
Page 5 and 6: "Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
Page 7: Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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Page 13 and 14: 11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
Page 15 and 16: 13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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Page 26 and 27: 21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
Page 28 and 29: Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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Page 39 and 40: 31 We drove back around in the lake
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Page 43 and 44: 35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
Page 45 and 46: 37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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stand your ground. Be bold and nois
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51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
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55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
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57 distance away to the four winds.
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59 We were visited that evening by
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61 the township with an enrollment
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63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
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67 August 16. Wednesday. Day of mee
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69 momentary. Went in to the Shelte
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71 on the limousine down. December
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73 birds than we thought we might r
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lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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water supplies are put in a couple
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track in the snow. We left about 11
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4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Two coyotes came down the road in f
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Spain, surprisingly, as there are i
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Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
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July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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We drove through the rainforest and
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QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
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Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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and barely survived. Antechinus stu
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floods and drought, much compacted.
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it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
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Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Then to Murdoch University, lecture
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This cave is the pouch of the femal
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Huge streams pour off the rock in a
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ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Trail Log 1997 February 22, 1997, S
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much better in the lower, protected
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To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
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Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
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crows are unusual inside Yellowston
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as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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I went up on a higher hill to try t
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Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
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Russia has an 80-year old system of
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In the dining car, there never seem
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Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
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City tour on a nice day. Population
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second oldest 2,000,000 years. It h
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Communism unraveled, and that, we t
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Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
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Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Viola rupestris Euphorbia alpina Pl
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Lychnis sibirica Schizonepetala mul
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wapiti, elk (American term), red de
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July 16-18, 1997, Tuesday through F
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Events in Ft. Collins area: July 28
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Camped at Sarto Creek, in flats nea
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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