Saturday, 19 August 2017

SATURDAY 19TH - ON THE MOVE AGAIN






We got up at our usual game watching time of 5:30 but this morning, we had a plane to catch. After a quick breakfast, we headed for the airstrip to be reunited with our geriatric Cessna 206.




There was only one animal which we had not yet seen, a male lion so our journey to the airstrip became a quest to find one and, sure enough, we did. The grand finale to our Moremi experience.

 
We enjoyed a very scenic flight along the Okavango Delta – a spectacular but substantial oasis in an otherwise very dry country.


We spent three hours in The Beast and are now comfortably settled at n'Kwazi Lodge, having crossed the border into Namibia. The power doesn't come on until four but the shower has a plentiful supply of hot water.

While we were having lunch, a Porshe rolled in towing a camper trailer It appears to have come from Zambia. Camper trailers are very rare here so to see one being towed by a Porshe is very novel. There are no caravans.

The Lodge is located on the Kavango River which forms the boundary with Angola so we are looking across at Angola. Some of the locals are doing their washing on the bank of the river. Presumably there aren't any crocs in it. Apparently they get their water supply by carrying large containers of water on their heads from the river back to their homes.

Tomorrow we head for Etosha Game Park. More game drives no doubt.

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