It has been over one month since I have seen them but I think about them everyday.. very powerful ladies.

Ridge Pride Lionesses, Maasai Mara, Kenya

My least favorite of all of Notch's sons. Grimace. He will finish an entire buffalo and share nothing, even when he is full. This is what a fat, greedy lion, looks like.

Maasai Mara, Kenya

Getting more powerful each day, Olive's cub can handle her own kills now.

Olive's Cub, Maasai Mara, Kenya

Oloololo Pride cubs, Masaai Mara, Kenya

Oloololo pride cubs, Maasai Mara, Kenya

I have been having a bit of fun with Instagram and the panorama setting on my iPhone since I am relying on only cell service now. I have not abandoned my beloved Nikon, but sometimes I just need a rest, to have fun, and just enjoy the extraordinary Mara. Here are the Oloololo pride cubs stalking a buffalo...badly. I think they think the bushes are keeping them covered, but we all can see them just fine.

Tanzania Border, Maasai Mara, Kenya

The Mara has many secrets and this is mine. Today a lioness watches over the plains on the same spot that Massek and I normally sit.

I have never not seen lions here.

Ol Kiombo pride, Maasai Mara, Kenya

One of the Ol Kiombo pride males enjoying the shade of a leopard tree.

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”

- Karen Blixen, Out Of Africa

Oloololo Pride, Maasai Mara, Kenya

Male lion roaring while on safari at Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve