A Land Cruiser traverses the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of game. (Brian Morgan photo)
This is an extended version of Brian’s Off Line column from May 2007 Roundel, adding a photo slideshow.
Brian Morgan, BMW CCA
May 10, 2007

The CB radio crackles to life, and an excited voice barks out a message in Swahili. Martine, our driver, shouts into his microphone, and then turns around to tell us to hold on for a wild ride. A leopard, the prize we're after on our early-morning game drive, has been sighted somewhere across the Samburu Game Reserve, a few kilometers away, down the rutted dirt paths that pass for roads and over on the other side of the river.


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