No Fixed Abode: Shoal of birds

Fri 15 Jul 2016 - Mobile Safari Day 5: Savuti to Chobe

Another long drive today so up and away by 0700 with a super quick camp strike and heading off just at sunrise and not long into the journey out of camp we came across a massive flock of quelea birds who were congregating in several bushes nearby a water hole and flying around in swarms against the blue sky and with the sun glistening on them they resembled shoals of silver fish darting around a blue ocean.

We continued along many km of bumpy sandy roads for roughly 5 hours leaving the Savuti area when we reached a tarmac road which leads to the main gate entrance to Chobe NP. We stopped on the side of the road for lunch where we sat with a magnificent view of the Chobe river plain to the Namibian border, both sides very green from the river. We made good progress along the tarmac road and arrived at the NP gate completing the registration formalities and headed along the Chobe river bank to turn off and hit the 4x4 trail to reach our remote campsite at 3pm in a lovely spot amongst trees which elephants are not partial to, much to KB’s relief.

Lets took us on a couple of hours game drive perfect timing for the animals coming to the river to drink - spotting many giraffe making their way down along, a poorly looking lion lying in the water and mud with a croc nearby, a magnificent male leopard lying in a tree with a dead impala draped in the lower branches, a young fish eagle eating a fish, great white egret fishing, a local Namibian in a mokoro fishing and massive herds of impala moving into bush for the night.

KB cooked another fantastic meal for us all to enjoy a last dinner together listening to noisy jackals cackling which Lets told us was them being very happy, probably from a kill.