Today we went to a native forest on the outskirts of Nairobi. It consisted of well laid out trails in native woodland. We managed to get there fairly early while it was reasonably cool and had a very pleasant morning walk. One of the problems they have is invasion of foreign species such as eucalyptus and they are trying to thin these out and re-plant with native species.
There were many butterflies in the forest this one was happy to be photographed
There were some helpful labels on the trees
Another butterfly resting on the path
There was a small lake with native water lilies
One of the waterbirds on the lake.a hamerkop a curious stork like bird
which builds an enormous nest in a fork in a tree decorating the outside
with any bright coloured trinkets they can find.
A very dainty little wader walking on the lilypads
After the walk we headed up to a shopping mall which have very pleasant cafe restaurant called Art Cafe.Here we met out friends George and Mary Ogalo. George heads up an organisation called FOCUS which co-ordinates the universities Christian unions. Mary heads up several projects empowering women and is at present finishing off here doctoral thesis. They were both very well as where there children, we spent a very pleasant time with them over a delicious lunch.
In the afternoon we went to view another house on the outskirts but again not ideal. On the way home we dropped in on Cecilia's friends where we were offered samosas and very spicy spare ribs washed down with a Tusker a very good African beer served ice cold.
Then home for fruit and tea.
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