We had just visited a Maasai village and were headed back to our camp, looking for some cheetahs we'd heard were in the area. Before we knew it, a cheetah seemingly appeared from nowhere and jumped up on the hood of one of the other two Range Rovers in our group. A cheetah will use a fallen tree or a termite mound or just about any elevated vantage point to search the landscape for prey. In this case, the hood of a motor vehicle, even one filled with a driver, an armed guard and four photographers, would do just fine.

This delighted some of us photographers who had a great opportunity to get pictures. But the group in the car with the cheetah weren't happy at all. All they could see through the windshield up front were some snatches of spotted fur as the cat moved around on the hood.

After 15 or 20 minutes we moved on and our final adventure of the day began. While the other two vehicles sped away down on the dirt road, ours came to a stop as the radiator began to overheat. After all our water from our canteens was poured into the radiator, to no avail, a Maasai warrior appeared from out of nowhere (just as the cheetah had done earlier), took the empty canteens and disappeared over the horizon. He returned in half an hour with enough water to get us to his village, where we filled up and moved on.

Just two more wildlife adventures as we drove on through Kenya.