The Kenya rift lakes: Modern and ancient limnology and limnogeology of tropical lakes in a continental rift / Кенийские рифтовые озера: современная и древняя лимнология и лимногеология тропических озер в континентальном рифте

In July 1975, we began a lifetime of interest in the Kenya Rift lakes when we began as graduate students supervised by the late Professor WW (Bill) Bishop at Queen Mary College, University of London.
A year later, having spent several months preparing photogeological maps, we arrived at Embakasi Airport in Nairobi on an East African Airways fight, excited to begin our feld research in the Suguta Valley in the northern Kenya Rift. After confusion and delay on arrival from London, we set off with Martin Pickford, and Jimmy and Gill Young (University of Edinburgh, Geography), for a tented camp on the western shore of Lake Baringo where Bill was arranging our onward journey to Suguta by a lorry with two Land Rovers, fuel, food, water, a cook, feld assistants, and a nurse. En route to Baringo, then a 5–6-hour journey, one Land Rover slid sluggishly into a ditch during heavy rains and several wheel nuts sheared off. A passing lorry loaded with Tusker beer came to the rescue. A few hours later, after dark, our second Land Rover became stuck on its side (>30°) while crossing the gravelly Ndau River near Lake Baringo during a fash food in torrential rain. That Land Rover became partly flled with water. An empty teapot foated symbolically below the dashboard. <...>