Steve Carey
Ambrose
Peter Kariuki

Steve Carey

I was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 and grew up on a farm in Marondera where my parents grew tobacco, maize and raised cattle. I spent my childhood exploring the bush with other children on the farm and learning about birds and mammals. My favourite book as a child was Robert’s Birds of Southern Africa and I spent hours memorizing birds when I was 4 years old and making my mother test me! I started falconry when I was 9 and our home was full or birds of prey which my brother and I flew every day. As soon as I left school I began my guiding career on the Zambezi River taking clients canoeing from Kariba to Mana Pools and Kanyemba and I spent 5 years on the Zambezi working for Shearwater Safaris where I became head of operations at the age of 23. I passed my Learner guides exam and then trained for my Zimbabwe Professional Guide’s exam which I passed in 1995. I began running walking safaris on the Lower Zambezi and then started Lemon & Carey Safaris in 1997 with Graeme Lemon in Matusadona National Park. We also opened a lodge called Elephant Point where my wife Annabelle started working at in 1998 as a caterer and manageress. We ran Lemon & Carey until 2003 when tourism in Zimbabwe collapsed due to political events and we moved to Kenya, first to the Masai Mara where we ran a lodge in the Loita Hills on the edge of the reserve, and then to Sosian in 2007. We have two sons.

Ambrose

I was born in 1974 in Baragoi Samburu District within the pastoralist community sharing Turkana and Samburu cultural values and ways of life. I went to Nomotio Primary in 1984 and Baragoi High School in 1992. After school I spent 6 years working for the Christian Children's Fund in Maralal as a community mobilizer and environmentalist. My dream of working in tourism came true in 2005 when I started working at Sosian as a syce (horse groom). In 2007 I started working as a guide and have since been training in wildlife. I believe I can serve as a guide as I believe in myself and wish to be as successful as an eagle. I am now booked in to sit my bronze KPSGA. I am head of the Sosian soccer team and the staff all call me Roots and Culture because I love teaching people about the medicinal properties of local plants and making a special tea with some roots which cure colds, and I love teaching people about Kenyan cultural traditions. I am married with two children, a boy and a girl.

Peter Kariuki

I was born in Laikipia in Nanyuki and I am from the Kikuyu tribe. My father was the head warden at the William Holden Wildlife Education Centre so I grew up with wildlife and dreamed of being a guide. After secondary school I enrolled myself at the William Holden Wildlife Education centre and “like father, like son” I worked there for 15 years as a guide and animal keeper of orphaned animals until June 2007 when I started guiding at Sosian. I passed by Bronze KPSGA exam in 2005 and my aim is to teach people either living in Kenya or just passing through the country, wherever they are from, the importance of flora and fauna and the conservation of our fragile habitats. Wildlife and human beings are just the same the way they carry out their daily lives trying to survive and I love teaching people about the animals. I am married to Valentine and have two children, a boy and a girl.