Botswana-Okavango Delta at Moremi, Day 2 is one of many articles to be created from photos taken on three connected safaris (Botswana and Zambia, Tanzania, and Kenya) between June 20 and July 31, 2009, with Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris, Saratoga, California (www.cheesemans.com). Additional sunset pictures are posted at:
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/356322/text.htmlIn the itinerary for the Botswana portion of the trip, Gail Cheeseman described our stay in Botswana to be in “tents in our ‘semi-luxury‘ camp
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The Fish Eagles are very distinctive in
appearance with a mostly brown body and large, powerful, black wings....
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The Helmeted Guineafowl is a large bird
with a round body and small head. Its plumage is gray-black spangled...
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The Blacksmith Lapwing derives its name
from its repeated metallic 'tink, tink, tink' alarm call suggesting a...
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The Hippopotamus is semi-aquatic,
inhabiting rivers and lakes where territorial bulls preside over a stretch of...
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The Female Lesser Kudu has a chestnut
coat that is lighter on its underside with about ten white stripes on...
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The Helmeted Guineafowl will usually
run rather than fly. It most often roosts in trees.
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This Hippopotamus seen in the woods
during the day standing still long enough for several photos is quite...
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The Earth-Touch.com film vehicle
was used by professional photographers who roam various parts of the world...
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The Southern Ground Hornbill is black
with bright red patches of bare skin on its face and throat.
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On days when the camp was not being
moved we returned after an early morning game drive to have brunch...
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Our Toyota 4WD and the trailer which
is pulled with us when we move the camp.
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The afternoon breaks at the camp were
the only sensible time to take a shower to be able to enjoy the warm...
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The bucket of hot water was hoisted over
head with the valve within arm's reach to begin the slow trickle of hot...
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That's our tent with a canvas wrap-a-
round (reflecting the sun) behind the tent with just a little of the bucket...
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A camp hand is accessing the
refrigeration unit used for food storage on the truck used by the hands when...
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Sox with his big smile.
He's the one who met us with a tray of fruit juice drinks when we...
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Most Lions drink water daily if
available, but they can go four or five days without it. Lions in arid areas...
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Elephants are increasingly threatened by
human intrusion and poaching. Once numbering in the millions, according to a...
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The Banded Mongooses live in groups of
about 20 and sleep together at night in underground dens, often abandoned...
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The African Elephant differs from the
Indian species by having huge ears and a sway back.
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The remainder of the photos in this
article were taken on Goaxhlo Island which is also known as Dead Tree Island.
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The trees died by being drowned when the
water channels changed and flooded the area.
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Most of the trees on the island are
mopane trees, and because of their resistance to termites as well as...
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We have a separate article with even more beautiful sunset pictures at...
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