Night Safari

This week 3 of us will have birthdays, to celebrate we spent the day at Lake Mburu National Park which is only an hour and a half drive from the Timothy Centre. Friends of ours recently went on a night safari in the park and saw leopards, so we thought we'd try our luck as well, we're glad we did!!

We started the day with drinks at a new lodge just outside the park, it's a beautiful view and we were able to see a 21 foot Rock Python!

The drive through the park is beautiful and all these animals were easily seen from the main road!

The girls weren't quite sure about the warthogs!

One of the highlights of going to Lake Mburu is a safari boat ride, you see something different every time! Yesterday we saw probably the largest crocodiles we've ever seen, one of them was 20 feet!

 The night safari starts just as it gets dark, a guide comes with us and brings a spotlight along. It was actually really cool to see many animals at night time, and we were thankful we decided to try this out even though the night was ending and we had yet to see leopards. Just as we were reaching the main gate 10 feet from the side of the road was this beautiful male leopard! Just up from him was a female and then while we were watching them 2 young leopards ran out in front of our van, it was amazing and definitely the highlight of a great day!

Lake Mburu

Our Director from Canada, Jon Imbeau, recently spent a week with us in Uganda. We all had the chance to spend one night away at Lake Mburu for a staff planning retreat. We have such a great team right now, we're all very excited about the coming year.

Jeff took over the role of Director in Kibaale this January, so far it has been a smooth transition!!

Thank you for your continued support and prayers as we begin another year living in Uganda.

Mazzy spotting the zebra.

Sean and Jamie Davis

The kids entertaining themselves on the drums during our meeting.

Watching the feeding of bush babies as it got dark, our kids really enjoyed seeing them for the first time!

Enjoying hot chocolate on the deck in the morning.

Avin with Auntie Rachel

A front row seat to watch the Hippo opening his mouth very wide!

Jon and Finn watching the hippos.

Lake Mburu

This past weekend marked the end of the school term, so our team thought it would be a good chance to get away for a little team building and getting to know each other better.

Arleen & Karl who are the Directors, our family, and Laura at the other end of the table, who works in the KCF office.

Stacy, RN from home, also a photographer, many of these pictures are hers!!

This park is one of the only places that you can do a walking safari, so we woke at up at 6am and went with an armed guide, he said the gun is in case the buffalo charge.

We also saw zebras, hippos, crocodiles and plenty of Impala. There are leopards and hyenas but we were unlucky and saw neither of them this time.

The kids had fun playing with the monkeys or throwing the frisbee while we waited for lunch, it was a great weekend!