Cheetahs!!!

Today, I was 15 feet away from 3 cheetahs! They had apparently just finished a meal because they looked fat and one kept licking his paws. The other almost fell out of the tree he was sitting in when he stood up. They must be really used to the tourists here, because they just sat there as we drove our car right up to them and took pictures.


We went to Mpala today for almost the whole day to get a cart built for Lisa's predator simulation experiment. Mpala is the other, and main, research station where most of the Princeton people are. It is about an hour drive north of here. Blair and I are only at Ol Pejeta because that's where the hybrids are and because she is studying Hartebeest and there are none at Mpala. Mpala is a research center only (no tourists). There are more people there and it is more set up for research, but Ol Pejeta has better wildlife. When I met with Dan he said Lisa and I will probably go stay at Mpala in July a week or so after Blair leaves. So at least I know how to get there now, because I will probably have to drive us over there in July. Dan gets here on June 19, which is apparently also his 60th birthday. So they are having a party for him over at Mpala that we will probably go to (assuming they have 3 extra beds for us to spend the night because we can't drive back in the dark).