One day as I was walking in circles searching for trees, my GPS batteries died. I was about six kilometers from my house and I realized that I had plenty of spare AAA batteries, but managed to carry no AA. Rather than wasting the dry weather, I decided to climb the fourth hill of my stint on the ranch. It was a challenge. I use this hill as a landmark in my notations of elephant locations and I can see it no matter where I am. From my house, from the treehouse, from the office, from the village, from the next village over- it is a landmark indeed particularly because of its unique pointy-ness.
All the hills on the ranch are actually inactive volcanic vents and when I climbed the pointy hill it was not hard to tell it served more of a purpose than a landmark at one time. There was actually a crater on top and I could imagine it spouting with lava back in the day. Here is a picture from the top. It was starting to drizzle and really you can't tell anything except it is a long way up. I get tired just looking at this picture.
As I breathlessly reached the top, I turned around to look down and noticed these 3 zebra on the first ridge.
I can only conclude that they know an easier route up, as I really could not understand the purpose of them exerting themselves. Maybe they wanted to see the view as well.
1 comment:
The hill mountain hill is awesome and to glad see you had some zebra friends to keep you company.
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