The Left Shore of Darkness
“even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.” Psam 139 (NIV) Just before the New Moon in October 2025, 18th to 20th, I finally went to a place…
Category Observation SItes
Olorgesailie III: Return of the Stargazers
I’m continuing my catch-up posts with this entry about another trip to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric site. If you haven’t yet, you might want to read the one about my first trip there last year first. Then I went again for…
Blood Moon
It’s been too long since I posted here, and so I have some catching up to do. I’ll start with the popular event that happened last month, the total lunar eclipse. It was called a “Blood Moon”, because it appeared…
Kenya Space Weekend
On the weekend of the 26th and 27th April, I took part in the Kenya Space Weekend, which was organised by Andrew Gakiria with his Kenya eLearning Center and The Outpost, Oloshoibor, Kajiado, and partnering with DarkSky Kenya and the…
Kajiado Dreamin’
Last weekend, we went to the Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site in Kajiado, where fossilised skeletons and early stone tools some hundreds of thousand of years old have been found. Our traveling party was comprised of my family, and our friend Shirley,…