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Botswana Okavango Delta 2009

Images from Mapula Lodge in Botswana deep in the Okavano Delta.
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100_7472<br /> This is when things got scary...we did live through it.
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100_7472
This is when things got scary...we did live through it.

AfricaBotswanaOkavango DeltaSafari

  • 100_5783<br /> Southern Ground-hornbill
  • 100_5868<br /> Zebra posing with termite hill. Zebras live about 25 years. Termite hills can live 70-100 years.
  • 100_5932<br /> Secretary Bird. It appears on the coats of arms of Sudan and South Africa.
  • 100_5938<br /> Secretary Bird in flight.
  • 100_5916<br /> An immature Bateleur Eagle (short-tailed eagle). "Bateleur" is French for "tight-rope walker".<br /> The eagle hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.
  • 100_7308<br /> Water Buffalo
  • 100_7017<br /> Way too close for comfort, but males are bluffers, so no real worries.
  • 100_7191<br /> The herd of elephants enjoy the water.
  • 100_7189<br /> Mother elephant and kids.
  • 100_6928<br /> A dazzle of zebra in the grasses.
  • 100_7490<br /> Simon poling the Mokoro with Jan, our English birding friend. She was at her 70th lodge in Africa.
  • 100_7503<br /> Hippos giving us the stink eye. This was our scariest moment, as we were in mokoros (canoes) and couldn't escape quickly if we had to run for it.
  • 100_7472<br /> This is when things got scary...we did live through it.
  • 100_7442<br /> Water lily from the mokoro (canoe).
  • 100_7450<br /> Reed frog.
  • 100_7521<br /> Mapula lodge "family". Standing is Dudu, Simon is on the left, Dicks is next, then Riva(spelling?), then Clare on the right,.
  • 100_7485<br /> Mokoro break. From the left: Jan, Simon, Dicks and Clare.
  • 100_7532<br /> One of 5 bush flights. Pilot here is Stephan, not his best angle.
  • 100_7402<br /> Sunrise in Mapula. Note hippos in river and fish eagle near the full moon.

  • Pam W.

    on March 25, 2010

    OMG, I think that if I were there I would need a clean pair of undershorts!

  • 227848awilbert

    on March 19, 2010

    This shot is very cool.

  • Paul

    on March 17, 2010

    9+

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