After saying goodbye to all our new friends, most of whom were also leaving that day we left a much quieter nairobi. We drove north west to the large freshwater Lake Naivasha which covers 170 sq km and where life was continuing peacefully. We stayed at Fisherman's Camp spread along the grassy tree-lade south shore of the lake and found we were almost the only peole there. The site was beautiful, had a good bar and restaurant and was well known for visiting hungry hippo.

In the morning we hired 2 bikes and went out to ride to a hippo viewing point . We never made it as the bikes were old and not easy to ride and when we found ourselves on a dusty, sandy track we had to turn back. The road passed through two game reserves one on either side and as we cycled along we could see giraffe, zebra, impala, warthog and even two jackals quite easily as the reserves are not fenced and the animals can often be seen walking across the road. On the way back we stopped at Elsamere Conservation Centre the former home of JOy Adamson of Born Free fame. The site is now a public conservation centre and museum dedicated to her lifes work. We browsed through the museum and watched some old film fottage of her with Elsa the lioness and then enjoyed a most welcome afternoon tea in the delightful and peaceful gardens overlooking the lake.

We dug a pt and made a fire and tried to reate a wonderful meal over the campfire as we had seen Natalie do at Christmas, only it wasn't wonderful and we have a lot to learn about cooking on the camp fire. In fact we have a lot to learn about cooking full stop. Even in Jungle Junction which had a kitchen for everyone to use the three Spanish guys used to be cooking up delicious looking means every evening and even baked bread! I always thought that backpacking meant travelling on a budget but the young Swiss couple used to also cook some very tasty looking dishes. On the night before they left I was asking him what they were having as the smell was wetting my appetite and he was also preparing some new potates and green beans plus other things in a bowl. I asked him if that was part of the meal and he said no that was for tomorrow to either eat on the road or when they arrived at their destination. Whatever happened to tins of corned beef!!!!

The highlight of last evening which made up for the rubbish meal was seeing two huge hipps climbing out of the water to come into camp to feed. They are contained by an electric fence though as they can become dangerous and aggresive to humans whilst on land.