Rivers and Rails of Africa
March 31 - April 12, 2023
Mike and Judy Henderson
I'll leave this map up so you can see where we are. At present, we're still at the top of the map, along the Chobe River, and then we're going to Victoria Falls.
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Continuation of our 4/5/2023 (Wednesday) trip to Chobe National Park.
After lunch, we headed back looking for animals. We found some elephants and giraffes grazing together.
The elephants gathered together.
As did the giraffes.
A closer view of the giraffes.
A closer look at two giraffes.
A noble giraffe.
Two mother elephants talking about their kids. Fake sky.
A baby elephant. It's hard to tell how small she is in the picture - but she was just a baby.
One of the big elephants started coming toward us.
Still coming.
Getting really close.
For a short while, we had a standoff. You'll notice that I moved back in the truck.
Eventually, she decided we were harmless, and moved off.
A mom with two babies - twins?
A closer view of the kids.
A mom and baby heading into the bush. There were quite a few juvenile elephants.
An elephant close-up.
A herd of impalas. There were so many impalas that I stopped photographing them.
Two Kudus.
An African traffic problem.
A close-up of the giraffe. Eventually, she moved to the side of the road. She was not in a hurry.
Elephants.
Mutter und Kind.
This elephant was having a good time in the water, splashing and drinking.
Eventually, she went fully under.
She did come back up:-)
A Kudu
Some Cape Buffalos, feeding
A closer view of one of the buffalo.
And one other.
But now, the time had come to return to the Zambezi Queen, and we headed back to the park entrance. On our way we encountered a group of young male impalas. As with many herd animals, there's only one male in the herd. That male gains his position by fighting and driving off all the other males. The other males go off on their own. When you consider that approximately half of the young are males, that's a lot of males wandering on their own.
Here's the park exit (and entrance).
The trip back to the Queen was uneventful. We had to go through Botswana passport control to leave the country and then through Namibia passport control to enter Namibia. People who live on the border really go through a lot if they work or shop in the other country.
We had dinner and went to bed. It was the end of a full day.