{"id":7334,"date":"2014-07-30T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:46:15","slug":"under-african-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2014\/07\/30\/under-african-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Under African Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day two of the African adventure – the full safari starts tomorrow, and in the interim I got to enjoy the second day at Lake Duluti with a morning walk around the lake and then plenty of time to enjoy the sprawling lodge grounds. My first animal attack of Africa occurred on the walk – it rained a little last night, so a colony of red ants was flooded out of their home and covered a fifty foot section of the trail; despite running through it I had a dozen defenders doing their job on my legs. Africa 1, Ryan 0.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon a troop of two adult and three young monkeys came through where the lodge is located, and as opposed to yesterday’s distant views these guys were fearless and were at times only a couple of feet away. Monitor lizards and more types of birds than I can count made up the rest of the day’s wildlife sightings, and another bushbaby made a fleeting appearance at dusk.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait for phase two of this African odyssey – if the grounds around a lodge and a tiny lake reserve can produce so much, I can’t fathom what the wide open spaces of the Serengeti will yield.<\/p>\n

\"Spider<\/p>\n

A giant (5 inches across) spider from the path around Lake Duluti, since I know a girl who likes spiders.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day two of the African adventure – the full safari starts tomorrow, and in the interim I got to enjoy the second day at Lake Duluti with a morning walk around the lake and then plenty of time to enjoy the sprawling lodge grounds. My first animal attack of Africa occurred on the walk – … Continue reading “Under African Skies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,30,19],"class_list":["post-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2014-world-tour","tag-photography","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}