Wow Ann, thanks for all that information! To us the red soil was simply gorgeous but I guess if you've experienced it like that (like Sherran said earlier) you're not so keen anymore. The amazing thing was that the elephants in Tsavo are red too: as they dust themselves or take a mudbath, the red soil sticks to them making them gorgeously red. After seeing those ellies grey ones seemed utterly boring!

We were lucky to see a very tiny baby:

ETA: I just realised the pictures I posted earlier this evening are too big. Mods; feel free to take them off..

Wonderful pictures, Fabby!  I was intrigued by the red color of the road and soil in one of your first pictures.  I Googled "mineral in red soil Kenya" and found it is the iron content that gives it that color.  We have red soil in places in the US also.  Here in MN there is iron ore mining in the Northern part of the state, but also low grade ore that was mined a few miles from me when I was growing up in SE MN.  I lived on the highway about 3 miles from some of the open pit mining south of me and about 2 miles north of me was a crushing processing plant.  Huge dump trucks used to go by my farm every three minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  They would turn onto the highway about 1/2 mile from me and would be shifting gears right at the end of our driveway.  The plant was closed in 1968.  I also found that Hawaii has red soil that also has the high iron content and saw large pineapple fields planted there.

 Mommy and baby

 Our guide

Shimba Hills Lodge 

Masai kids:

Great pics Fabby :) Thanks for sharing them with us.