We signed up to do a different type of safari with PANGOLIN PHOTOGRAPHIC SAFARIS. Our guide was someone called "Guts"!? He met us bright and early in his big
uni-mog and instructed Dud and Mr. O. to get their cameras out and he gave Karen and I each our cameras. Expensive Canons with humungous lenses. We were to keep these, use them and learn to take better photographs over the course of the next two days! Yikes!
Guts gave us some basic photography lessons from the uni-mog and encouraged with each shot.
Let our photos do the talking...
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| A Maribou stork at sunrise |
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| The Bateleur Eagle |
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| Vultures at the ready |
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| Beautiful giraffes |
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| A rare sable |
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| Kudu |
The next morning, bright and early, Guts came to fetch us with his specially made photographic boat. Guts enthralled us with his knowledge about the wildlife and his ability to
teach us how to use those fang dangled cameras, take great shots, be
interested in what we take! The two men were more naturals, but Karen and I persevered
and got better, so much so that we became enthusiastic BIRDERS!
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| The crew |
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| Comparing lens sizes |
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| African Pied Wagtail |
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| Egyptian geese |
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| Cormorant |
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| Crocodile (with artistic shots to follow |
The Jacana bird. Did you know that the mum lays the eggs and then dad has to rear the chicks? The mum takes off and leaves him. He is very clever and protective as he can lift the chicks up and carry them under his wings! Can you see the chicks?
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| Tourists come from all around the world to Chobe National Park in the Okavanga Delta. |
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| Opened billed stork |
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| Yellow billed egret |
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| Hippo yawning or telling jokes |
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| The flag of Botswana in the reeds in the middle of the Chobe River dividing Botswana and Namibia |
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| A fortunate feed. The pride of lions found an adolescent male elephant that died of natural causes. |
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A lioness coming back to the elephant carcass.
The boat was probably 4 meters away from the shore line! |
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The lioness watching over the cubs and the prey, when along comes a ….
a hippo who appeared to sniff, bite or lick the carcass before sauntering off back into the water. |
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The next day, there were full tummied cubs resting under the tree.
They kept coming out to feed on the carcass. |
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| The Hammerkop bird. They make a huge nest that many other hammerkops share. |
What a wonderful experience we had on land and water with Guts! Check out his website!
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