Sunday, October 8, 2017

Chobe National Park, 1

Botswana's premier wildlife reserve is Chobe National Park, only a few kilometers from Senyati. On September 6th the safari trucks took us there. Only 4WD vehicles are allowed, and not all of them can handle the deep sand.
"African message" it's called, riding the 4WD truck across the
bumpy sands

Most of this was along the Chobi river and marshland

No swimming

A Monitor; ugly critter

The usual impala

Waiting for lunch

River tour boat

A striped kudu or possibly something else (I'm at an oyster bar
in Port Vendres, France, and don't have my African animal guide
handy)

Impalas are especially predator-wary, and the baboons prefer
their company



When feeding, baboons always appoint a sentinel to keep an
eye on things

There he is

With a friend

Of course, baboons are not all brilliance; here's one picking
through elephant droppings for undigested morsels











































The birds are not impressed


Nor is Mr. Croc

Note the bird exploring the gash on the hippo; a little croc in
the background

Peaceable kingdom

2 comments:

Tawana said...

I'm assuming you were using a good telephoto lens. I wouldn't want to be too close to some of these critters!

Rebecca said...

I love that you were at an oyster bar in France while posting about animals from your African safari. Could there be a more world traveler sentence?!? :)