Huge waves of these animals swell north from the Serengeti and spill into the Mara.
People come, too, hoping to see the interaction between predator and prey.
As a wildlife artist, I have traveled to Africa to capture my experiences in a journal of drawings, watercolors and acrylics. It's now late September and my wife, Linda, and I have just arrived. We are already hearing stories of how the migration came and went because of early rains. Topi, zebra, Grant's and Thomson's gazelle, impala and eland are plentiful, as, too, are the resident wildebeest. As I sit here outside our tent, I can hear them about 50 feet away in the river, and, because it's mating season, they're very vocal.