The Milgis Trust

Category: Milgis lugga, elephants | Date: Aug 27 2008 | By: milgistrust

The other name for the Milgis Lugga is ‘Elgerei’… a hot windy place… but this morning its lovely and calm… If I could describe 50 % of how I feel, or what I see this morning… I’m doing well… I am on a 600 foot hill, called ‘Elkanto’ [ Wild frontiers, and Milgis Trust base ] , above where the Laana Nikan and Barsaloi luggas meet and become the Milgis… We look strait down the Milgis Lugga winding its way to wards the east, where it divides the Matthews and Ndoto mountains…The morning light is picking up each and every one of the 1000 hills surrounding us, with the peaks of the two mountain ranges standing out majestically… The sand in the lugga is shimmering, picking up the early morning rays, and you can see fresh elephant tracks criss crossing the lugga… There is a herd of Elephants cracking branches, wondering around looking pretty content below the hill.. The radio operator has just walked past, and I asked him if he had any visitors last night… He said a porcupine came to drink water.. I told him we had 4 dikdiks right next to our bed!!

Yesterday morning we walked up the new radio hill.. Lowa Onyoke.. Its 1000 feet higher than The Milgis Trust base. This will give our radio coverage a huge boost..With the brave movements of the Elephants up north, to the places that they were wiped out in the 1970s/80s, we need good contact with our northern scouts who are paving the way’ for them…We need to warn the people who live on Mts Nyiru and Kulal that they are coming back, and to remind them of how to live with Elephants!!! This very essential project could not have been achieved without the generous help of the Shikar Safari Club Foundation… Thanks to Chuck Lathrop, and members of Shikar…And by the way… its going very well!!