Lake Magadi at its best! A algae bloom on the surface has turned the soda waters bright red, and its a spectacular sight!
Deep in the heart of Maasai land set against the beautiful Nguruman Escarpment, lies the 100 square kilometre Lake Magadi. Surrounded by hot plains, the caustic soda waters host thousands of migratory flamingo that descend on the lake each year to nest on elevated mud mounds. The lake’s shores have freshwater springs that attract a host of other birds and wildlife.
The Great Rift Valley formed over 30m years ago. In the hollows lie some of the world’s oldest and deepest lakes. Lake Bogoria, in the heart of the Eastern Rift is an alkali lake, and apart from its spectacular setting, is a feeding hub for thousands of flamingo.
Honoured to have on board Olympic Champion Eluid Kipchoge – the greatest marathon runner of all time!
A professional athlete with immense achievements, yet he dedicates time to encourage and support people, communities and causes. Yesterday he joined the Wild Women Ultra Marathon team who ran 5 marathons in 5 days across Laikipia in support of ‘For Rangers’ who raise money and awareness for the welfare of rangers. These are the people on the ground who protect our wildlife, often at the cost of their own lives. We can not say how much we appreciate their efforts to keep our elephants and rhino safe.
Thank you Eluid for believing in the work of the Wildlife Rangers! Thank you for flying with us!
One of our Cessna Caravans taking off from Nanyuki for a day of charter flights! It can carry up to 11 passengers, and is a single engine aircraft with a reputation as the safest general aviation aircraft ever built!
We have a fleet of 4 Caravans and 1 Cessna 182 which is the ‘workhorse’ of the fleet. It flys just two passengers at any one time – all over Kenya.
All our flights are booked on private basis, and the aircraft is therefore exclusively yours! Get in touch if you would like a quote.
Photo: Andrey Josephs
A vast contrast from the red and yellow deserts that dominate northern Kenya, are a range of ancient crystalline Precambrian rocks, mostly granites which are extremely durable, and for this reason, the steep ranges some reaching over 2,500m, are left standing despite the relentless cycles of erosion influencing the region for centuries. On the summit are pristine evergreen montane forests, that thrive from the dependable morning mist.
We land here on the side of Mount Nyiro occasionally, to escape the heat of the deserts, and to take in the views – which never seize to take ones breath away. The Samburu nomadic pastoralist also scale the steep sides with their livestock to find grazing and a refuge during the toughest of dry seasons.
On this particular day, we had with us the Joe Muriithi – a Nanyuki-Based professional Mountaineer and adventure photographer – documenting our helicopter flight.
In recognition of one of the greatest engineering inventions off our time!
A day to appreciate the contributions that helicopters make to our society, and to celebrate the people that design, fly and maintain them.
📸 Claire Jones taken in Western Uganda, Queen Elizabeth National Park, August 2021
