A visit to George Adamson's
Before we left Nakuru on the third day, Lindsay went out with Andrew alone to get more shots of the flamingos. They also spotted a black rhino. Black rhino like bushes and scrub and are difficult to find, while the white rhino like the open plains, and are much easier to see. They are actually about the same colour, their names have nothing to do with their skin colour. Black Rhino Orchestra please... I'm late, I'm late for a very important date! It was a short drive to Elsamere at Lake Naivasha, which used to be the retirement home of George and Joy Adamson of ‘Born Free’ fame. We were allowed to look at the museum/library, kept under lock and key. It houses many of the Adamson’s books, photographs and Joy’s paintings. Sadly, Joy was murdered by their house boy over a pay dispute, while George was murdered by poachers at Kora. This means so much more to me now as I have just finished the novel called “a lion named Christian”, which I loved. Christian was given ...