Flying over the Mara River with the Mara Elephant Project (MEP)

During my travels to Kenya earlier this year and while I was staying at Angama Mara, Tyler Davis, (Angama's Regional Director) invited me to join together with their in-house photographer Adam Bannister on a visit to the Mara Elephant Project Headquarters by helicopter. I got way more than I bargained for. Check out some of the highlights of this terrific experience. 

We left Angama Mara in the dark to go to the airstrip where we would meet Marc Goss, the helicopter pilot and managing director of the Mara Elephant Project. He landed and stepped out of his branded Robinson Helicopter. Cool, calm and collected we decided to go to find some elephants first to get some footage to help them with their marketing. Few minutes later we were off.

The Sun was just about rising as we swooped over the front of the escarpment. The action had begun. After a morning joyride we headed off into the Mara. Marc pulled out his Phone with the tracking system loaded on it and flew straight towards a small group of elephants heading off towards a farm. We dropped Adam & Dean Paarman (My Camera man) off on the ground, near a tree to get some shots from outside as we went to herd the elephants off in the right direction.

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