Fishing in Aberdare

I keep ticking off my to-do-before-I-leave list... Another camping trip last weekend, together with Bodil and three of our students this time. We entered at Naivasha gate on Saturday, at the west side of the national park, and from there we crossed the Aberdare moorland plateau. Beautiful landscape, and amazing waterfalls. We stopped several times to go fishing, and one of the boys got a couple of mountain trouts. Some parts of the roads were muddy and extremely slippery at this side of the park, and the mud was crammed into the treads of the tyres, making them lose the grip. But I was happy both to have a 4wd Landcruicer and an experienced advisor at the age of 15. After having tried a couple of times to get up a very steep hill, where one side of the road was black mud where the wheels only slided or dug down, and the other side had big rocks, I was about to give up. But my student jumped out of the window of the car, started to move some of the rocks, and confidently gave me instructions on where and how to drive. I gave it a last chance, since it was getting late and we were only a few kilometres from the campsite if we could make it. Otherwise we would have to turn around and go back several kilometres, and the road was not very good from where we had come either. But what a relief when we made it!
Nice campsite, a little rain in the evening, but luckily dry weather the rest of the night, and also the following day! The bush bucks came for a visit when we were about to go to bed, and they kept grazing right outside of the tents most of the night. Fascinating! On Sunday we drove to the east side of the park for a game drive. A little scary, maybe, to have lunch just a few metres from a buffalo. If you use a magnifying glass, you might see him under the bush in the background of the last picture...