It doesn't always feel like I live where I live.
Despite the mud huts, the donkey carts, and epic tracts of sand traversed..
It’s surprisingly easy to forget..
Yet, something about wading amid deep hippo footprints and elephant
dung, pushing aside papyrus looking for a private spot to piss, on an island in the middle of the oKavango, really does trigger a realization as to one's current locale.
The weekend was spent near the mouth of the Zambezi [Caprivi] Strip around Divundu.
A couple of nights sleeping next to the oKavango River in an old hulk of an RV camper, with the sweet grunts of hippos as a lullaby through the night.
It was beautiful.
The icing, though, was the boat ride, piloted by an experienced guide, and an abundance of wildlife.
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| Palms | Kavango River |
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| African skimmers | Kavango River |
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| Bundled papyrus | Kavango River |
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| Carmine bee-eater | Kavango River |
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| Look closer, they're shy.. A lesser jacana. | Kavango River |
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| Kids fishing | Kavango River |
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| Pod of hippos | Kavango River |
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| Crocodile | Kavango River |
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| Fish Eagle | Kavango River |
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| That shadow there? Its an elephant. | Kavango River |
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| African skimmer eggs | Kavango River |
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| Fishing | Kavango River |
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| Bird in flight | Kavango River |
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| Goliath Heron | Kavango River |
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| Lily | Kavango River |
