"Every morning an impala wakes up knowing that it must outrun the fastest lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning a lion wakes up knowing that it must outrun the slowest impala or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a lion or an impala, when the sun comes up in Africa you must wake up running"
- anonymous, Zambia
Sunset, Maasai Mara, East Africa
Usually in the evenings, when driving through the Mara, I am stopped to check the broken bonnet on my car. But there are times, like now, I stop completely to watch the sun fall behind the horizon. Standing in the tall grass is a time to be brave, as the temperature drops and you realize night is just upon you.
Watching the sun I feel like I am standing at the edge of the earth, swallowed completely by the African sky. But that moment is so brief before darkness falls. When the darkness comes it is a new world. The tall grass hides the predators of the night. It is time to stay keen the very moment the sun slips away. Now a new adventure of darkness begins.
A morning filled with beauty and grace.
For certain I don't like change. I am a creature of habit and It has been quite hard to say goodbye to my lions (especially the Lookout) who I have lived with for over one year now. My naughty boys will be so missed. We are just 30 km away now but it seems like a country divides us. Here is the Lookout coming out to greet me, marking his territory along the way. He is a really nice lion. One of the best I have ever known.
