North Gate (Khwai) Campsite Moremi Game Reserve

... deliver.. this time we could see the sign on the other side of a water crossing.. I waded out until I was half way up my thighs.. now I am not a real woose.. however when wading into a delta stream and things start to swim by (fishes in this instance) my clacker started to clack.. retreat swiftly with a dignified look on my face so Lisa will still think I am a real man!!.. Backtrack to the main road.<br><br>Arrive in Mababe village to find the main bridge is out.. chat ...

... them sniff the air we got closer and closer. They&#8217;re so funny looking with their front legs outmatching their back legs and a big hump and hairy whiskers to complete it all. Suddenly they were off and running, leaving a cloud of dust in their wake. <br><br>Next, we saw a baby giraffe, cut off from its family and alternately turning to stare at us, then gallop in a random direction looking for them. As we followed a ...

... in gym class being the last to get chosen for a sports team or something! When we got in her Mokoro we immediately noticed how low we were riding. A Mokoro is similar to a canoe but it is a bit longer and much narrower. It takes two passengers and one person who stands in the back using a big pole to navigate through the Delta waterways. I was excited, I had been looking forward to this part for a while and love ...

... their drive out of the park. Kirilee and I were simply thrilled to be back in the presence of lions and so we hung out for a few more hours. During this time, we watched impala venture dangerously close to the lion without noticing him camouflaged in the grass... unfortunately he wasn't interest in hunting them. SUDDENLY, a huge roar pierced the silence!!! It hadn't come from the lion in front of us but from a new set of lions a short distance away. Venturing over to ...

... couple of large game drive trucks and two more 4WDs. We'd had the foresight to use the red warning triangle as my big fear was that other cars could plough into us as we stood in the road. With only one track nobody was going anywhere until we moved the cars off the road. Incredibly the German's car started and he was able to drive it out the way. S for us it looked like we would be able to go on now having had the tyre released from the crushed wing. We thanked the South ...

... for all in preparation for the Okavango Delta the next morning. That is everyone bar myself, Mincer and Tim who had a few more drinks at the bar and watched Julius get steaming drunk as he had a couple of days off as he wasn't coming to the Delta with us...fair play to the guy seeing as he had been driving about 800km a day for the last two days. After a bit of a rough start to the morning and Helen making the decision that she wouldn't be well enough to go to the ...

... the trees was a huge bull elephant walking around eating. Eventually he headed off and we resumed pitching camp. Since the animals all hide during the peak of the day's heat we had nothing to do but kill time at camp swimming in the delta and trying our best to drive a mokoro. At 1430 we split into groups of five and headed out on a sunset game walk. We eventually stumbled on 3 elephants in a field next to a big watering hole that had ...

... zebras roaming wild, and hippos &amp; crocs in the delta. We did a 4 hour morning trek where we saw lion footprints and poo (close enough to the real thing for us) and also learnt about the trees, land, and medicines. Our guide promised us that at the end of the trek we would ...

... out during our various game drives that these two animals group together because zebras can see well while wildebeest can hear well. So the two compliment each other in staying alive! On our way back to camp on the mokoros, we saw a beautiful sunset. Our excitement of the evening was trying to evade the numerous mice who had invaded our camp. The mice weren't afraid of anything or anyone. We even had a few invade tents in our ...

Unpacked the truck and moved all our gear to 4x4's for our first game drive - 2 nights in the Moremi National Park. Given the time of year we were very lucky with the 2 hour drive in - we saw giraffe, impala, zebra, elephants, warthogs and baboons. Arriving at the wild camp we found it was currently occupied by an elephant, but thankfully it got bored of people taking pictures of it and wandered off. In ...