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Hans-Georg Michna wrote: Liz, couldn't reach you by mail. Please see my message near the end of this one. Hahahaha - not contactable at .co.uk. ISP from Hell! I haven't been able to get mail in to there for months. (Suits me, I was getting over 2000 spams a day at one time.) So I use that addy to post to Usenet. (Sorry) While trying (so far unsuccessfully) to get the isptag changed to my new ISP. There seems to be an endless loop when one gets to the birds of prey. Clicking on MORE gets me to birds, clicking on MORE again gets me back to birds of prey and so on, endlessly. Perhaps one of these links doesn't point in the right direction. I think that's a 'feature' (sort-of). I'd envisioned a birder somehow landing on one or other of the pages and maybe would be interested in the other. That of course does give a dead end 'loop'. If you start at the beginning and click through all the "more's" (you *must* be on braodband!), avoiding the side-tracks, these two pages are the 'end of the line'. You're right, though, I should think of a different way to label these two pages so's not to frustrate visitors. Which is a pity, because I'd like to see even more of your photos. (:-) Sooky git!!! (I know, I know, you were being tactful. [OT] Don't know when I'll get any more Kenya stuff up. I've been trying to put together some more Galapagos stuff recently, but I've got into a problem of not being able to make pics look OK on each of my two systems, so nothing has gone 'up' for a while. Before now, I just did the pics here and too bad for everyone else ('here' is 800x600 16 bit and a different gamma and screen res than Windows has. I've got a hi-res monitor on the pc, which seems to leave pix looking 'over-sharpened' here.) Once I get that sorted out, I might scan more of my Kenya slides and put them up, or re-scan some of the ones that look 'weird' on Windows. (Some of them I haven't rescanned since I originally did them on a cheap flatbed adaptor before I had a film scanner.) Don't hold your breath: D. keeps reminding me I'm way behind on his site too. Maybe I'll get back to Kenya one day and have more of an incentive. :-/ Slainte Liz -- Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos "I speak of Africa and golden joys" |
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(delete nospam for reply) "Dana" wrote in message om... Hi. Has anyone been to Amboseli and Samburu and share any comments? I'd agree with what everyone else has said, but also consider where you are starting from and how long you are going to stay at where you decide! If you are starting/finishing in Mombasa then Amboseli is much closer. Its a shorter drive to Amboseli from Nairobi and on 'better' roads (at least , it used to be, but I havent been to Kenya for quite a while, and Amboseli more recently than Samburu). So for example, if I was starting in Mombasa and only camping for three nights, I'd definitely choose Amboseli! -- Rita Daggett |
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Hans-Georg Michna wrote: How would I solve that? Ideally you could make it an endless loop by pointing to the first page from the last, and you could also provide a link to go back to the previous page. Us programmers call this a double-linked list. (:-) I actually have a link on both of the bird pages to the first page (labelled 'info'). I can see the problem is the 'more' label, and am thinking about it as I write. First I had to see if I could find a blank button to write on, but I have. Keep going! I'm planning to go to Kenya again in May, hoping that it won't be too wet in Maasai Mara at the end of May. Have you ever been to Lewa or any other places in the area, like north of Swee****ers? There are some ranches there that have wildlife. I think I'm getting ready to devoting some time to finding African hunting dogs. As you can see, I'm aiming for the difficult ones now. I've been to Lewa very briefly (for lunch - it's really out of my budget!) and have heard about the ranches in that area but haven't visited. The ones I know about all seem pretty expensive. I didn't know there were hunting dogs in that area. The last I heard, they were almost totally extirpated from Kenya, but I'm sure if any wandered into a reserve or private game ranch, they'd be made more than welcome because of visitor interest. But your info is usually more up-to-date. I've only seen them in Selous, which is the most regular place in EA to see them, but even there, sightings aren't guaranteed. There was also great excitement on that trip because four hunting dogs had been seen in Tarangire only a week or two before we visited. That was back in '98. Failing that, there's now a pack in Edinburgh Zoo :-/ Slainte Liz -- Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos "I speak of Africa and golden joys" |
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Hans-Georg Michna wrote: How would I solve that? Ideally you could make it an endless loop by pointing to the first page from the last, and you could also provide a link to go back to the previous page. Us programmers call this a double-linked list. (:-) I actually have a link on both of the bird pages to the first page (labelled 'info'). I can see the problem is the 'more' label, and am thinking about it as I write. First I had to see if I could find a blank button to write on, but I have. Keep going! I'm planning to go to Kenya again in May, hoping that it won't be too wet in Maasai Mara at the end of May. Have you ever been to Lewa or any other places in the area, like north of Swee****ers? There are some ranches there that have wildlife. I think I'm getting ready to devoting some time to finding African hunting dogs. As you can see, I'm aiming for the difficult ones now. I've been to Lewa very briefly (for lunch - it's really out of my budget!) and have heard about the ranches in that area but haven't visited. The ones I know about all seem pretty expensive. I didn't know there were hunting dogs in that area. The last I heard, they were almost totally extirpated from Kenya, but I'm sure if any wandered into a reserve or private game ranch, they'd be made more than welcome because of visitor interest. But your info is usually more up-to-date. I've only seen them in Selous, which is the most regular place in EA to see them, but even there, sightings aren't guaranteed. There was also great excitement on that trip because four hunting dogs had been seen in Tarangire only a week or two before we visited. That was back in '98. Failing that, there's now a pack in Edinburgh Zoo :-/ Slainte Liz -- Virtual Liz now at http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos "I speak of Africa and golden joys" |
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writes In message Hans-Georg Michna wrote: How would I solve that? Ideally you could make it an endless loop by pointing to the first page from the last, and you could also provide a link to go back to the previous page. Us programmers call this a double-linked list. (:-) I actually have a link on both of the bird pages to the first page (labelled 'info'). I can see the problem is the 'more' label, and am thinking about it as I write. First I had to see if I could find a blank button to write on, but I have. Keep going! I'm planning to go to Kenya again in May, hoping that it won't be too wet in Maasai Mara at the end of May. Have you ever been to Lewa or any other places in the area, like north of Swee****ers? There are some ranches there that have wildlife. I think I'm getting ready to devoting some time to finding African hunting dogs. As you can see, I'm aiming for the difficult ones now. I've been to Lewa very briefly (for lunch - it's really out of my budget!) and have heard about the ranches in that area but haven't visited. The ones I know about all seem pretty expensive. I didn't know there were hunting dogs in that area. The last I heard, they were almost totally extirpated from Kenya, but I'm sure if any wandered into a reserve or private game ranch, they'd be made more than welcome because of visitor interest. But your info is usually more up-to-date. I've only seen them in Selous, which is the most regular place in EA to see them, but even there, sightings aren't guaranteed. There was also great excitement on that trip because four hunting dogs had been seen in Tarangire only a week or two before we visited. That was back in '98. Failing that, there's now a pack in Edinburgh Zoo :-/ Slainte Liz Hans Georg and Liz, I haven`t been to Lewa but I met Jane Craig at Hemingways once. We had a chat and she said to go up there sometime. Like you, it would be a bit too expensive for us. Hunting dogs: I`ve been thinking about Tony Fitzjohn, ex Kora but now at Mkomazi in Tanzania. He has some African hunting dogs there. If you put Mkomazi into google.com you can check it out. Also, there have been some programmes on wild dogs in Ethiopia on BBC, are they the same as hunting dogs? Pat -- Pat Anderson |
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In message , Liz
writes In message Hans-Georg Michna wrote: How would I solve that? Ideally you could make it an endless loop by pointing to the first page from the last, and you could also provide a link to go back to the previous page. Us programmers call this a double-linked list. (:-) I actually have a link on both of the bird pages to the first page (labelled 'info'). I can see the problem is the 'more' label, and am thinking about it as I write. First I had to see if I could find a blank button to write on, but I have. Keep going! I'm planning to go to Kenya again in May, hoping that it won't be too wet in Maasai Mara at the end of May. Have you ever been to Lewa or any other places in the area, like north of Swee****ers? There are some ranches there that have wildlife. I think I'm getting ready to devoting some time to finding African hunting dogs. As you can see, I'm aiming for the difficult ones now. I've been to Lewa very briefly (for lunch - it's really out of my budget!) and have heard about the ranches in that area but haven't visited. The ones I know about all seem pretty expensive. I didn't know there were hunting dogs in that area. The last I heard, they were almost totally extirpated from Kenya, but I'm sure if any wandered into a reserve or private game ranch, they'd be made more than welcome because of visitor interest. But your info is usually more up-to-date. I've only seen them in Selous, which is the most regular place in EA to see them, but even there, sightings aren't guaranteed. There was also great excitement on that trip because four hunting dogs had been seen in Tarangire only a week or two before we visited. That was back in '98. Failing that, there's now a pack in Edinburgh Zoo :-/ Slainte Liz Hans Georg and Liz, I haven`t been to Lewa but I met Jane Craig at Hemingways once. We had a chat and she said to go up there sometime. Like you, it would be a bit too expensive for us. Hunting dogs: I`ve been thinking about Tony Fitzjohn, ex Kora but now at Mkomazi in Tanzania. He has some African hunting dogs there. If you put Mkomazi into google.com you can check it out. Also, there have been some programmes on wild dogs in Ethiopia on BBC, are they the same as hunting dogs? Pat -- Pat Anderson |
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On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:47:29 GMT, Liz wrote:
I didn't know there were hunting dogs in that area. The last I heard, they were almost totally extirpated from Kenya Liz, a rough estimate for the number of wild dogs in the Laikipia, Isiolo, and Samburu areas is 150 and apparently growing, including one pack near Churo that turned up only a few years ago. But they're a sensitive species. A disease can easily wipe out half the population in a short time. Domestic dogs spread such diseases. It's happened before. Some of them wear radio collars. There is a research project, but not yet any tourism directed at them. I don't know much about the area along the Tanzanian border around Magadi, down to Namanga, but wild dogs have been seen there too. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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