Sunday afternoon family walks aren't quite the same as those in the Cotswold! For a start, you have to pay for the walk as there are no safe, free places to walk. Then there is the fact that you need to take a guard with you to protect you from the animals and show you the way. Thankfully, Nicolas (our guard) was great at guiding us through the thick woodland.
He pointed out a tree, called the Strangler Fig that cleverly suffocates any tree that is too close to it by growing long tendrils that once touch the ground, grow into another tree.
This new tree binds itself around the neighbouring tree as it grows and eventually suffocates it - see below - neighbourly love and all!
We saw an African Crown Eagle's bird nest high up in the branches of a tall, tall tree. This bird eats monkeys, small deer and ladies 40 and above with curly hair. It almost bit my head off! I am now in hospital with a broken nose and half an eyebrow. The doctors say I'll be out in 2 weeks but unfortunately my face will never be the same. How's that for a Sunday hike! (that's what happens when you leave your teenage daughter alone by the computer whilst you make a cup of tea!) 
Anyway, where was I? Ah - yes, I was just about to show you the hyena poo! The colour of which is determined by what it has eaten. Can you guess what this hyena had eaten for dinner? Bones! Thankfully not ours!
Our walk then took us through a dry river bed. This is particularly important at the moment as there is a severe drought in Kenya (of which we will tell you more in our next newsletter and how MAF is helping with the drought relief).
We passed a beehive (this one is for you Dad) and then back to base, picking up an old horse shoe as a momento of the walk and the obligatory stick for Elijah to whittle when he gets home!
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