Rhino Watch Camp and Lodge is growing

News from Rhino Watch. we have finished our 2 new units for family´s. This big Chalets have 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. They are located close to the pond where lots of birds can bee seen.

Also the flowers around our normal Chalets have been growing and make a wonderfull display.



Chalet Nr. 1 is located on the highest point of the Chalet section.







Family Chalet and the new pond at Rhino Watch that is home for many birds.

Rhino Special

At the moment we offer a special rate for 1 week Rhino Safari at Rhino Watch. But that does not mean that you only see Rhino´s during your game drives. At the moment we have a new born Leopard at Solio Game Reserve what we see quite often. Also some new born Rhino´s are around and many herds of Giraffes. Now we have more than 19 Lions in the Park.
Eagle Owls can be seen and many other birds.

Only 599.- Euro per week including 4 full day game drives and all meals.....check our Rhino Watch web page for details.

Leopard Picture Yvonne

Here is Yvonne favorite picture done with Rhino Watch during her safari.

Yvonne on Kenya safari

Hi Frank, just wanted to say many thanks for a great safari! I enjoyed meeting some of your family. Moses & Miriam took great care of me. Enjoyed the safari at Solio, got some great rhino shots, some with young ones. Samburu was beautiful also, got the oryx (some with babies) and zebras I wanted, also a wonderful encounter with a very close leopard. Your lodge is beautiful, and I wish you the best of luck in your operations. Thank you so much for arranging such a great safari, I really had a wonderful time. Hope to see you again sometime. Cheers, Yvonne

Rhino Watch Safari Lodge

At Rhino Watch we often serve BBQ´s.

More safaris in Kenya

Some weeks ago we went on a round trip Safari. Here are some Images.

We start at Amboseli National Park where 2 Hippos were fighting.




The lssoing Hippo took shelter behind a Safari Bus.



The Duiker is the smalest Antilope and food for the Phyton



Elephants at the bottom of Mt. Kilimanjaro



Buffalos waiting for the rain




A young lion male






suddenly i saw a lioness passing behind our jeep, ready to hunt






A L A R M



after the hunt did not work out our lions got another idea......

Australians in Kenya

For Australians, it's a long trek to Kenya. If you add to that a dragging a bunch of heavy telephoto lenses and cameras in and out of airports and airplanes, the destination just better be damn good. On our second day in the country, as a lone leopard began a long and languid stroll towards our 4WD, I knew we were on a winner. From the lush Cloud Forest of the Aberdares to the dry and dusty Savannah of Samburu animals and birds paraded past our hungry cameras in unending procession. Early morning sunlight glinted from a Long-tailed Widowbird as the male danced to attract the rather drab females, Thompson's Gazelles ran towards the rising sun creating magnificent silhouettes. Lions strutted by and lazed the day away pausing to yawn and displace a cloud of flies. The 16 Gb cards in the cameras filled quickly.













The volcanic soda lakes provided a contrasting environment. Great flocks of pelicans, cranes and flamingoes dotted the shores of Lake Nakuru. Spotted Hyenas finished a meal of Giraffe and ran to the water. Of course the intimate body sniffing protocols were rigorously observed as they relaxed like children at the seaside. Concentration was intense and lenses swung in unison as the pelican flights took off and landed. Pied kingfishers watched cautiously from a distant branch. Of course the Marabou Storks always tried to interpose their ugly countenance and ruin the odd perfect composition. I am sure they occupy an important ecological niche - one just wishes it was on another planet.




From Amboseli the snow-crowned peak of Kilimanjaro dominated the contradiction of the arid plains and lush swamp lands that comprise this National Park. The swamps provided a daily spa for Elephants, Hippo and Buffalo. At dusk, the mighty herds of pachyderms trekked single file from the water to the forest. Wildebeest gnu-ed their way around and also managed to mess up an otherwise good composition.




A sneaky little Malachite Kingfisher lurked near a causeway necessitation many return trips to capture his regal splendor. Of great pathos was the Baboon mother with a sickly infant. It struggled to keep up and suckled hungrily when mum would stop. As the anguished human-like features of that doomed face gazed at us, it would have been a nicety to repeal to the laws of survival articulated by Darwin. But this is Africa!







It was our last day and we struck out across a trackless plain. Away from any road, we passed Maasai settlements with protective encirclements of brush bomas. Small children diligently watched over small herds of goats. The foothills of Kilimanjaro loomed. A message jumped onto the screen of my Iphone "Karibu, Welcome to Vodacom Tanzania." We were near our destination of the border town of Namanga and the end of our trip.








20,000 images, 16 days in Kenya with fellow photographic travelers from France, Germany, Holland and Australia. Thank you to our hosts, Frank and Kendy Wirth, it just doesn't get better than this.

Pam & Wayne Osborn (www.wayneosborn.com.au)