Loving an animal

"They say somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

-Robert R. MCcammon

We visited one of our favorite places in Kenya, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Each year we've gone to see these orphaned elephants. In the last three years we've adopted four elephants at the Trust and this year we learned that one had been released to the wild. After three years the elephants go back into the wild to create chosen families. Many of the elephants mothers have been poaching victims or died from starvation, lack of food and water.

We adopted an elephant named Susawa for our friend whose birthday is coming up. Susawa came to the orphanage about five months ago and her mother was a victim of poaching. Her keeper who took this photo of her for us said she was very traumatized when she arrived but that she is acclimating now and is much better and more sociable.

This is  KITHAKA, we just adopted him yesterday, he's silly and was making his keeper laugh a lot.

We also managed to see these amazing four legged, long necked beings.

We visited the Giraffe Center and got to feed the Giraffe. 

This is Ed. He is awesome. 

Back to work tomorrow. It was nice to spend the day with a different kind.