Images of Kulafumbi: The House & LandSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)River risinghttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-g.gif?pictureId=1201111The river started rising in the morning of the 29th March, until it reached the highest level we had seen this year, over the top of the wide white sandbank at Hippo Bend, into the Tana River Poplars to the left of the house...Ian photographs rising river from atop the wellhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z49.gif?pictureId=1201093Small crocodile seeks temporary refuge on rock island...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/croc-escapes-red-river.gif?pictureId=1201108...but it won't be long before it has to move again, as the river levels continue to rise, and all the rocks disappear below the surface of the raging red torrent.Even the large crocodiles seek refuge in calm backwatershttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/crocodile-flood-waters.gif?pictureId=1201105A lizard watches the flood from the safety of our balcony - great vantage point!http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/lizard-flood-05.gif?pictureId=1201104The river floods further and further into the Tana River Poplar standhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-i.gif?pictureId=1201112Downstream, the reed islands are battered by the waterhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-j.gif?pictureId=1201113The water creeps higher and higher up around our wellhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/water-around-well.gif?pictureId=1201087River breaks a new channel through behind the Fig Tree opposite the househttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z11.gif?pictureId=1201115The Athi River starts to flow into the dry Mtito riverbedhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z15.gif?pictureId=1201117Higher and higher...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z17.gif?pictureId=1201101...and higher and higher...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z28.gif?pictureId=1201100The Fig Tree opposite the house is now completely engulfed by waterhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z29.gif?pictureId=1201099The river eats away at its banks and surrounds our wellhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z32.gif?pictureId=1201098River lapping around our wellhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z34.gif?pictureId=1201096The river banks being cut away by the water...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z33.gif?pictureId=1201097...as more of the bank falls in...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z36.gif?pictureId=1201095A Yellow Billed Stork watches the torrent rushing byhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z48.gif?pictureId=1201094A male Agama Lizard stays just out dangerhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z53.gif?pictureId=1201092The river carries with it pieces of debris from upstream...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z56.gif?pictureId=1201090...like this huge dead tree, carried as if were merely a twighttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z55.gif?pictureId=1201091The reed islands (with weaver bird nests) are battered...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-u.gif?pictureId=1201114And finally, the reed islands disappear from sight below the waterhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river-flood-29mar08-z13.gif?pictureId=1201116Amazingly, the day after the flood, the islands reappear...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/recovering-reeds.gif?pictureId=1201103...and start recovering very quickly....http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/reeds-recovering.gif?pictureId=1201102The reeds at the river's edge take longer to recoverhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/battered-reeds.gif?pictureId=1201106After the flood subsides, the new course and character of the river is revealedhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/river%27s-edge.gif?pictureId=1201109Where the bank has been cut away, interesting sand strata can be seenhttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/sand-sculpted-by-wind.gif?pictureId=1201088The wet mud in the evening light creates pretty patternshttp://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/sand-patterns.gif?pictureId=1201089The giant log on the beach has been buried under sand...http://www.wildernessdiary.com/picture/buried-log-on-beach.gif?pictureId=1201107The elephants will be upset, as this was once a favorite scratching post for them!