The Serengeti - the good, the bad and the ugly.

In nature, there is no good, no bad. There is just your point of view. A crocodile pulling down a young Gnu beneath the water with its mother helplessly looking on, crying out. Is the croc bad? A crocodile feeding to survive, is it good? 

To our eyes, the leopard is graceful and beatiful, the Gnu it hunts and kills is ugly. This seems a little unfair on the poor old Gnu.

Our trip to the Serengeti had been awesome. Only three nights spent there, but over thirty hours on game drives thanks to our amazing guide, Ian. Between long hours spent with big cats, elephants and experiencing the Mara crossing, there was an apparently endless stream of wildlife.

There were birds stunning in their beauty...

 

varied in their size...

 

and in their beauty or lack of ...

 

Along with herbivores large...

 

herbivores petite 

 

and herbivores less than pretty

 

The Endless Plain (the Serengeti) could not go on forever. We reluctantly had to leave. Our next stop however (our last in Tanzania) was to be a stunning climax to an awesome week.

Superlatives are just not good enough...

Here's some photos that haven't made it into the previous blogs...