Barb and I visited Tanzania in the fall of 2000, fulfilling a 50th birthday wish for me. We were overwhelmed by the vistas, the people, the animals. Most fulfilling for me was the sense of abundance and diversity. It was richly comforting to see so many creatures ... simply to know the wildebeest still migrated by the tens of thousands, to see elephants and lions by the dozens, to grow almost weary of the almost unbelievably exotic giraffes.

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Buffalo skull Elephant madonna & child

At the gates of Tarangire park.

The elephant madonna and child.

elephants and Barb Flamingos and water buck

Barb was *this* close to those elephants.

Flamingos shade the lake where a water buck rests.

Future pilots of Africa Giraffe reaching

Future Pilots of Africa Club, Arusha chapter.

The giraffe is Tanzania's national symbol.

Mt Meru Game Lodge porch Ngorongoro Crater sunlight

Howard's second-best Hemingway pose at Mt. Meru Game Lodge.

Sunlight paints the crater at Ngorongoro.

red elephants Take no liberties

Red dust protects elephants from the tse-tse flies. Nothing protected us.

We took none.

Tarangire panorama Two lions in tree

This Tarangire landscape remains my panoramic memory of the African countryside.

We saw dozens of lions -- but none closer, or cuter than these.

Vast herds of grazers

Vast herds of grazers: abundant, ubiquitous, satisfying.