written and photographed by Mary L. Peachin
Sep 1997, Vol. 1 No. 10
As the plane landed on the dirt strip lined with red oat grass, what had appeared from the air to be tiny specks transformed into full-size, grazing zebras, giraffes, and wildebeest. The intrusion by the sound of the prop did not disturb the grazing herds.
Two six-passenger open-hatch, four-wheel land rovers met us at the strip. Swarthy, Swahili-speaking guides, Allan Earnshaw and Tim Melesi, offering a combined 30 years of experience as African safari guides, welcomed us to the plains of the Serengeti in Tanzania.