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“Travel through Botswana, June, 2011.”
From Botswana, posted by Arlo Midgett on 6/25/2011 (105 items)
- Now is that a great Pedestrian Strutting sign, or what?
- The African backpack
- Should you choose not to pay your Waitron, the management cannot be held responsible …
- I have never seen a squirrel eat while hanging upside down. Until now!
- The waterfront in front of the Okavango River Lodge
- Flat calm
- I liked that tree across the water there.
- See the hippo?
- The he is again! Boats kept scaring him off…
- Sunset at the Okavango River Lodge
- Bugs in the lights at night
- Again, my favorite tree in at least a 200m radius
- Looking across the water toward the camping site
- The bar
- Anti-malaria precautions
- Sunrise by the Okavango River Lodge
- Wish I could do this for any length of time on the bus rides
- 1 in 4 people in Botswana have HIV/AIDS
- The view of the Okavango Panhandle from the second floor of Swamp Stop
- Our vantage point for two quiet days of waiting
- Cats between us
- Who purrs like a motor boat? That’s right! It’s you!
- Sunset migration on the Okavango Panhandle
- Looking downriver
- The amount of bugs that came out after dark was ASTOUNDING! Fortunately, very few mo…
- Our luxurious accommodations (We never actually planned to stay here, but ended up do…
- The inside of our accommodations
- They call ’em "Flatties." Harmless, but still scares the bejesus out of yo…
- Posing for a photo
- Swamp stop had a bunch of cats
- Huh. I wonder if there’s anything interesting to see in the area.
- Biggest lemons we’d ever seen
- One of my many new friends
- I think the cats have been here awhile
- Move your meat, lose your seat
- The Okavango Panhandle is great for bird watching
- And again
- Bird watching again
- Lots of reeds. Surrounding villages created whole huts and fences out of these thing…
- Self portrait
- Papyrus
- The banks of the Okavango Panhandle generally all look like this
- Sunset
- Their two swimming pools were FILLED with frogs and tadpoles. Kind of yucky, but it …
- The aforementioned tadpoles
- Sunrise on the Okavango Panhandle
- Okavango Panhandle, playing with camera settings
- Okavango Panhandle, playing with camera settings
- Surprising cold in the mornings, but quite warm in the afternoons. Pretty much all o…
- Playing with the endless stream of minnows
- Guinea fowl. Love the composition of this shot Oksana Midgett took, even if it is a …
- This was our ride out of Swamp Stop (Across the flooded section of the road.) Guy in…
- Our home for the next three days, The Ngwesi Houseboat
- The common area (which was essentially private; it was only Oksana Midgett and I on b…
- A little visitor as we motored upsteam
- A Kingfisher
- Taking flight
- Returning from our boat safari just before sunset
- Goliath Herons
- A pair of kingfishers
- Our first croc sighting
- Heron
- We watched this goofy bird fall out of a tree, into the water
- Our guide, Naison, spotted a baby hippo!!
- We got pretty close in our tender boat, but because of the reeds, never got a clear p…
- My new profile photo.
- Sunset
- Dinner at sunset
- Deep sunset
- Moonlight on the Okavango Panhandle
- Fish eagle
- Looks quite a bit like our bald eagles.
- Brunchy goodness
- As part of our stay agreement, we were working on the Ngwesi Houseboat. We took a lo…
- Our tiny, but delightful room
- The view from our room
- Oksana’s taking pictures, I’m her croc & hippo lookout!
- Hippos!
- What are you looking at?
- They kept bobbing up, looking for us, and then disappearing again
- A whole family!
- They must be thinking, "Don’t take your eyes off of them, even for a second!&quo…
- Almost like they’re posing for us
- Favorite. Photo.
- O hai
- Dusk brings the bugs en masse… but they’re not the biting kind.
- Oksana wouldn’t let me eat until she’d taken a few dozen photos. The steak was tempt…
- Tried to capture the stars again. Not as good as in Bolivia, but very very close.
- Our view for at least a couple days
- This is the place I like to chill. To relax. The chillax!
- Captain Richard Zunza!
- Heading back downriver
- On the way downriver
- The biggest croc we saw, maybe 4 meters?
- The crocs and hippos were amazingly shy. This is the view we most often saw
- Watching them disappear in the murky water was creeeeepy!
- Fishing on the last day
- Having a good time; we should have done this much sooner!
- Trying to catch the first Ngwesi (or Tiger Fish)
- Naison trying his luck
- Guess who caught the first fish? That’s right.
- See the frog?
- How ’bout now?
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