Sunday, July 24, we made a trip to the Kakamega rain forrest about 90 minutes north of Kisumu. Dan, the owner of the safari company we used for our trip to Masai Mara, offered us this trip for free after the various fiascos we endured on that trip--I may not have written about this earlier, so that will have to wait for a face to face storytelling. Either way, Kakamega is a tiny remnant of a rain forrest that at one time stretched all the way to the west coast of Africa. There are some 300+ species of birds and 33 species of snakes in the forrest. We saw no snakes, a few monkeys and lots of bird. We also ventured into a cave (originally dug to prospect for coal) where we saw some bats. We had no flashlight with us, so the bats were whizzing by our ears in the dark. Among the pictures below, you will see an enormous tree. Our guide told us that offspring from this tree has been planted throughout the forrest as it is such a hearty example of the species (which species it is, I don't recall).
This week I am mostly working on documenting the data management process in preparation for my trip to Ethiopia on the 4th. It isn't really blog-worthy material so my postings this week might taper off. We'll see. However, if we can arrange it, a few of us intend to travel to Mombasa this weekend. It is the peak of the tourist season so we're having difficulty arranging the travel. With some luck though we'll be swimming in the Indian Ocean this weekend!
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