In a few days canvas will be zipped tight, ignitions shut down and camp fires doused. Guides, staff and pretty much the whole Kicheche family will take several weeks off. Many will be exhausted from a long season.
When you win, yes win a safari and are the envy of friends, colleagues and indeed enemies, the correct protocol is surely to keep your head down and do your safari time .... quietly.
Close to 20 Kicheche safaris each, perhaps our favourite son and daughter …..from Queensland …. Competitive ….? …. Never!
Sometimes you can only tell people so many times ...Jenny Varley has frankly spent far too long in a holding pattern before finally getting to Kicheche. She had the grace and class to tell me: 'Graham has taken more footage in the last four days than anywhere else'
Mara North Maestro Jimmy Tinka captures marvellous 'frame' before the River pride captures young giraffe
Don't know where you spent Christmas this year, I don't suppose Jackie Turner really cares as she found herself almost knee-deep in cats of all sizes at Bush Camp. Lions with eyes still only half open and a suitably topical leaping leopard.
Kevin Rooney is one of Kicheche's favourite sons with hundreds of game drives augmenting his Conservancy masthead.
Feline fisticuffs - Alpha male lion gets the treatment from this lioness after killing her cubs. This Big Cat fight captured by Paul Goldstein on his recent safari at Kicheche Bush Camp, Olare Motorogi Conservancy.
If you are going to pick a fight it is not just about numbers. Bantam weights should never get into the ring with Heavy weights, even if there are five of them.
Footage shows a pregnant mother giraffe giving birth in the heart of Kenya's Olare Motorogi Conservancy.
