Luxury, another day in the same spot. We decide to stay put and have a relaxing day in camp and go on the evening cruise on the Chobe River. Stew is still pretty sick we discuss upping his medication to antibiotics but decide against it. Between us all I think our range of drugs is better than the stock in most african hospital pharmacies.
We dropped into Kasane to get some supplies and things were extremely busy as it was end of month and most get paid at the end of the month. The queues in the supermarket were about 30 mins long which blocked up all the aisles. I managed to get a micro sim for the iPad so we are back up and running with Internet.
We were picked up from the camp at 2.45 and driven to the double decker boat for our cruise, after a quick stop at the park entrance which is a little pontoon at the side of the river to pay our fees it is into the park properly. One side of the river is Namibia and the other is Botswana so as we head into the park we have the Caprivi to the north and Chobe to the south.
There are quite a few islands in the middle of the river and these are loaded with game, big rafts of hippo's and buffalo and huge numbers of ele's. The bird life is amazing, again with huge numbers of everything. We were able to get right on top of the hippos and right next to the ele's. they are very chilled next to the boat.
The birds we saw included Purple heron, Malachite kingfisher, Pied kingfisher, Wire-tailed swallow, Yellow-billed stork, Open-billed stork, Spurwing goose, Squacco heron, Reed cormorant, Grey-headed gull, Blacksmith lapwing, Long-toed lapwing, African fish-eagle, African jacana, White-faced duck, Marabou stork, Lesser jacana, Little egret, Great white egret, Sacred ibis, Glossy ibis and an incredible sighting of African skimmers.
After the cruise it was back to the camp where Dtours organized the meal, vegetable parcels on the Braai, marinated fillet on the Braai and potatoes wrapped in tin foil in the fire. Very nice and a great chance to be able to show Team Maverick that we can indeed look after ourselves. Feeling quite content we were once again blown away when Team Maverick casually enquire would we like a marsh-mellow. As if it wasn't enough to have marsh-mellows in the bush, they pull out cane skewers and offer us either plain or coconut. These guys are so sorted.
We dropped into Kasane to get some supplies and things were extremely busy as it was end of month and most get paid at the end of the month. The queues in the supermarket were about 30 mins long which blocked up all the aisles. I managed to get a micro sim for the iPad so we are back up and running with Internet.
We were picked up from the camp at 2.45 and driven to the double decker boat for our cruise, after a quick stop at the park entrance which is a little pontoon at the side of the river to pay our fees it is into the park properly. One side of the river is Namibia and the other is Botswana so as we head into the park we have the Caprivi to the north and Chobe to the south.
There are quite a few islands in the middle of the river and these are loaded with game, big rafts of hippo's and buffalo and huge numbers of ele's. The bird life is amazing, again with huge numbers of everything. We were able to get right on top of the hippos and right next to the ele's. they are very chilled next to the boat.
The birds we saw included Purple heron, Malachite kingfisher, Pied kingfisher, Wire-tailed swallow, Yellow-billed stork, Open-billed stork, Spurwing goose, Squacco heron, Reed cormorant, Grey-headed gull, Blacksmith lapwing, Long-toed lapwing, African fish-eagle, African jacana, White-faced duck, Marabou stork, Lesser jacana, Little egret, Great white egret, Sacred ibis, Glossy ibis and an incredible sighting of African skimmers.
After the cruise it was back to the camp where Dtours organized the meal, vegetable parcels on the Braai, marinated fillet on the Braai and potatoes wrapped in tin foil in the fire. Very nice and a great chance to be able to show Team Maverick that we can indeed look after ourselves. Feeling quite content we were once again blown away when Team Maverick casually enquire would we like a marsh-mellow. As if it wasn't enough to have marsh-mellows in the bush, they pull out cane skewers and offer us either plain or coconut. These guys are so sorted.
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