Alarm at mysterious rise in Lake Nakuru water level
View of Lake Nakuru from the Baboon Cliffs. Inset: Flooded acacia forest (top). Buffaloes in Lake Nakuru National Park. Photos/Jan Fox
…After breakfast we set off to make history by becoming the first living people to cross the lake on foot… There’s no water at all in the lake now. – Nellie Grant in Elspeth Huxley’s Nellie: Letters from Africa.
Whether Elspeth Huxley’s mother was the first person to cross Lake Nakuru on foot is questionable. What we can be certain of, though, is that 74 years ago the lake was completely dry.
