Etosha day 3 and Botswana

The last two days (day 3 and 4) we continued to see amazing things. I would love to write about them all now but I leave for the morning on a makuro (small wooden boat) to go deep into the Okavango delta in Northern Botswana for 3 days. I still need to finish the food shoping and prepare our camping equipment. One of the highlights I can't keep out though was our last nigh. We set up camp about 8pm after the sun had already set. I started to make a fire but for the first time on this trip had trouble. It was not due to me neccesarily but an outside force. While I was starting the fire I kept having to throw the logs at jackals that were trying to come and steel our food. At night time we were awoken by lions roaring from what seemed like 50 feet away. IN the morning time we saw many wart hogs running around eating the grass close to our tent. it was very cool to be so close to all the animals but I was a little annoyed with the jackals.

The drive from Etosha to Maun in Botswana took two days to complete and our scenery has changed drasticaly. The first day we got to within 14 kilometers of the border. We stayed at a small place 4 kilometers down a dirt road right on the rver. We fell asleep to the sound of hippos splashing in the river below us. We awoke in the morning and headed south to the Okavango Delta. The largest inland delta in all of Africa. It is just north of the Kalahari desert in Norther Botswana. When we first entered the country we saw something that could have been taken directly from the movie "birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. For the first 20 miles we drove there were thousands upon thousands of eagels soaring in the sky. They went on for as far as the eye could see. There could have been over a quarter of a million of these birds. Most of them were flying low and many times I got scared they were going to fly into our car. It was bizarre to say the least. We got a good video of it and when I get back to the US I will upload it.

That is it for now. As I mentioned I am heading deep into the delta in the morning. I am sure I will have plenty of stories once I reamerge. Until then...