Rain at last

Now here is an event, I remember growing up in the deasert in South Australia, and the relief when the short rain season came,.... Oh what a feeling,... well we are experiencing that same thing here now, massive lightning/thunder storms, it is sooooo refreshing after the dry.

(yes this was hand held, but click on it anyway, it is more intricate than it loks on the small view)

Yet more lovely people, took me out to the Namibian side of Chobi park this morning and we didn't see much game, some Zebra and Water buck and lots of birds, but we had a lovely lunch under a shady tree on the banks of one of the tributary rivers.
We only had two bricks with us and the sausages were burning so we found some props to lift the rack up.
I have never before had Elephant Dung smoked Boer wurst but, but do you know what, it's yummy, and the smell of the smoldering dung is not unpleasant at all.

On the way there, yes I kid you not.

I was fishing after work one day this week and fortunatly I had my camera, this is a colony of Carmine Bee Eaters, they were being hunted by a hawk, on the banks of the Zambezi, very spectacular.
Like all of the photos on this blog, click them to enlarge.

The Bee Eaters nesting, they dig into the sand, down to nearly a metre.
You can see a couple of them having a teritorial battle mid air in the centre of the shot.

Their 'bogeyman'

  The panic when the bogeyman comes

Finding a resting spot waiting for the predator to get lost.

You are having too much fun. I would contribute more if I knew how. Loving your pics

Lets whiz over to Botswana

I've met yet another nice person, on Friday night after work a coleague here took me out for a look around the town, we ended up at her parents bistro in the middle of Katima.

Her father runs a tour company, and was talking about how he was taking a couple of Germans to Chobi National Park in Botswana in the morning, just for a day trip, I said "can I go along"? and he said yes, so I have just spent the day looking at elephants, kudu, impala, crocs, hippos, elan, fish eagles, maribu storks, sable antelope, orix, spoonbils, rollers, bee-eaters, bla bla bla, didn't see any big cats though, bet you feel sorry for me huh.