Hippo Crossing
An african cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, grazes near a hippo crossing in the Masai Mara National Reserve.
Shortly after sunrise after the balloon had taken off from the northern section of the Masai Mara National Reserve, I looked down and saw what looked like dirt bike tracks meandering through the woods. When I asked the balloon's captain pointed said that they were hippo trails going to and from the river where the hippos, Hippopotamus amphibius, would come out at night when it was cooler to feed on the grasses.
This image happened in a split second, I was only able to get two shots off as we flew over this convergence of hippo tracks not far from the river. If I had waited a split second more the balloon would have passed over the hippo crossing.