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The African elephant Perhaps the most magnificent of all the animals in Africa, the elephant is...
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Motorboat But first we had to get there. Once inside Botswana, we flew from Maun to a...
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The large and the small We rode three different elephants, but there were also six little ones that...
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Up close As you'll see, we were about to get extremely close to these wild but...
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Up, up We quickly learned how to get aboard these magnificent animals. One foot on a...
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Some go by boat There were eleven of us in camp that week. Six would ride and five...
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Pat walking It didn't take much walking with the elephants to get acquainted...
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Impala A big advantage to being with the elephants, either riding on top or walking...
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Procession Randall Moore, a former elephant trainer from Portland, Oregon ,...
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Giraffes Even the giraffes let us get quite close to them. Giraffes need a lot...
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On the river delta There's so much water in the delta that the mokoros really come in handy.
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Mokoro boatman A mokoro is a dugout canoe, made from an ebony or a sausage-tree log....
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Two mokoros They're a pretty sight, but they're also photographers taking...
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Zebras These Burchell's zebras didn't pay much attention to us, fairly well...
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Pat & Bob Something's going on over there.
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Strangler fig Life and death are common in Africa, even among trees.
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Island lunch A pleasant lunch after riding and walking for several hours. Even though...
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Crossing We're never far from the water in the Okavango Delta.
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Hippopotami Hippos are the most dangerous of all the animals in Africa, but we could ride...
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Rainbow An afternoon rain somewhere nearby.
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Shadows We make an interesting shadow in the late afternoon.
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Under the rainbow This photo was taken by David Anderson who arranged all the safaris that took...
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Headed home
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Botswana sunset
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Camp dinner Here we are, roughing it in deepest Africa. Every night we had tablecloth and...
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