John,

As I mentioned, all the "real" animal pictures we took was with slides. And I don't have a scanner...

Maybe I'll get ahold of one of those thingys you can mount on front of the digital camera to take pictures of the slides.

This lioness which we saw in the western part of Serengetti was actually quite interesting. She was missing one of her rear paws!!! It was an old wound that was completely healed and had a thick "pad" where the leg ended. She was all alone, and had obviously taken the Gnu by herself.
We found the western, less visited part of Serengetti to be worthwhile, and saw over 20 lion in one day!

The Whaleshark picture is from a small one (about 6 meters) that we snorkelled with in Mozambique. The biggest one we were in the water with was about 11-12 meters. It was quite amazing to be close enough to touch them (which you aren't supposed to, but I did anyway...) while swimming along. I did this practically every day for a month.

The 3 Buff are from Abadere nat. park in Kenya. We had stopped on a hilltop to have a look at the veiw. You could see Mount Kenya from there. After having a good look around for lion etc., we got out of our LR, and walked the 50 meters up to the "lookout point". As I got to the top of the crest, I was able to see these 3 buff only 15 meters away beneath me on the gentle slope! Naturally I stopped up, and backed slowly down to the car, together with my wife who was right behind me. We then drove around the hill, and took this picture. So in other words, we had been standing 15 meter to the 3 buffs left side up the slope. The amount of good buff in Kenya was amazing... My trigger finger was itching!

The gorillas are from Mgahinga in Uganda, along the DRC and Rwanda border. If I had to make a final choice of which animal I would be allowed to go see before I die, it would be the gorillas again. They were simpley amazing.

Erik D.

Here are a few more picture: