It was the red rock in the night sky at Island Camp Baringo that spurred me to Lake Magadi to watch the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century on Friday 27th July 2018 that lasted an hour and 43 minutes. I wasn’t risking the event of the century in cloudy Nairobi. Magadi, lying low in the rift, always hot as hell with clear skies, was my closest escape from Nairobi. When Kenya Museum Society announced the trip to witness the blood moon there, l was on it.
My imagination was already running riot with a startling red moon filling the sky with an equally red Mars, the closest it’s been to the moon in 15 years. Continue reading “In Magadi’s Magical Moonlight”
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