Sept 27 - Running Water

    Friday morning dawned as beautiful as all mornings do out in the wilds of Kenya.

 On any earlier post, I had mentioned that we had access to 30,000 gallons of fresh spring water while we were at the safari camp.

 A while back, Izzo, our friend and business partner for this trip, was looking up into the hill past where he wanted to build his camp. A stream ran along the western edge of his piece of property and he wondered if he could find its origin. So he started walking, just like Denise, our guide Dann and I did that Friday morning.

 Before we went too far, however, we stopped at the spot where the women from Dann’s village had been getting their water. Not much of a stream, huh?

 We kept walking, though, following the river upstream.

 Enjoying the beautiful surroundings.

 And crossing the river.   

 And walking just a little bit more.

 Until we arrived at a lush, wooded thicket. And the origins of Izzo’s spring, which, with his engineering degree . . .

 . . . he was able to capture so that the precious water could be transported to where it could benefit the most people.