Thursday, July 18, 2013 – Okavango Delta, Botswana

June Kay, Laura Westray, Marian Moran, Winston Padgett, Polly Anna Randol, Ken Westray



waterbuck

Okavanga waters under the log bridge

zebras

impala

gnu (or wildebeest)
We saw a lioness!

female lion calling her pride

saddlebill stork


Winston Padgett, Polly Anna Randol, Marian Moran, Scott Shephard, June Kay, Arthur Kay, guide _, and tour leader Abi Nyoni checking out the lion

Janet Shi wears a scarf as a Yashmak to keep the sand and exhaust out of her face

look at all the safari tourists looking at the lion

daytime resting hole made by an aardvark

Little Bee-Eaters

leopard
We tracked a leopard!


elephant giving the "African salute"

nice kitty...

crocodile


getting our morning tea break ready

Arthur Kay, Abi, June, Monica

Abi explains how to play the impala spitting game

Abi and Monica

impala poop

Abi and Winston Padgett
Mr, T cutting off toothbrush tree twigs


impalas


leopard has a drink


Hamerkop

crocodile and great egret

impalas

warthogs with impalas behind

crocodile

kudu

stork(?) pair

lioness

elephant

The capital of Southern Rhodesia used to be Salisbury, and when the country became Zimbabwe, the capital was renamed Harare. The name Zimbabwe comes from the Shona words for house (zimba) and stone (mabwe). The Shona tribe comprises about 68% of the people in Zimbabwe. The Ndebele tribe, the warriors, are the second biggest tribe. Whites comprise about 3% of the people. Abraham Nyoni is from the Nambia tribe, which together with several others are about 5% of the people.


June and Arthur Kay

Abi talks to us about Zimbabwe

Janet Shi, Marilyn Herel, and Judith Blecha listen to Abi Nyomi talk to us about Zimbabwe

Arthur asleep under the mosquito netting