Travelling by mokoro in the eastern Delta

Local guide in mokoro

Elephant by the Camp site

Eagle owl at camp site.

Fishing for Tiger fish., Okavango Panhandle near Shakawe.

Cruising along the river in the research boat.

Rene baiting one of the small box traps

Crocodile in trap

Crocodile in boat

Measuring the crocodile

Portrait of a crocodile

Aliki radio tracking one of the collard females

Young boy in mokoro - Okavango Panhandle

Carmine Bee-eaters, Okavango Panhandle

Crocodile in box trap

Large female crocodile.

Aliki jumps on the crocodile

Collecting parasites from a crocodile.

Young Crocodile

Primary school near Shakawe

Classroom Shakawe primary school

Tsodilo Hills - North-Western Botswana

Rock paintings in Tsodilo Hills Botswana

Baoba Tree

Sunset over the Okavango

My visit to the Okavango started with a 3 day camping trip by mokoro in the eastern part of the Okavano delta.

My guide slept in the open and took his drinking water directly from the river. We took turns cooking in our single pot and kept the fire going at night to keep the hippos and elephants away.

Elephants and hippos were frequent visitors to the campsite so we had to move cautiously after dark.

This was one of a pair of Eagle owls that visited the camp site.

Much of the river in this region is lined by Papyrus and Phragmites reeds.

Aliki at the helm takes the team for a spin. Ron on left, Kathryn right.

Rene baits a trap with some of the dead donkey we found earlier then adds some blood for that extra flavour.

Success we catch a medium sized crocodile in one of the box traps. Rene and Aliki lift the trap into the boat.

We then transported the croc to the shore.

Aliki then took blood and urine samples while the rest of us took the crocs vital statistics.

Crocodile's have three eye lids.

We finally catch a large female in Rene's box trap.

Large female crocodile is gradually hauled on to a sand bank

Aliki makes a run and drops a towel over the crocodile’s eyes.

I collected some parasite while Aliki took blood.

Holding a young crocodile. Note that its mouth has been taped just in case it decided to take a piece of my ear.

One of the Schools we visited to help teach the children about the importance of crocodile conservation.

Children were given the opportunity to touch a young crocodile and the dangers of swimming in the river were emphasised.

One of four hills at Tsodilo a sacred area for the local !Kung San people.

Many of these paintings are thought to date from the Stone Age and have been executed using natural pigments of white and ochre.

Picnicking under a Baobab tree in Northern Namibia