Okavango water

9/6 2 buffalo bulls near camp, leopard and lion tracks, guinea fowl flying, mother leopard with 2 week old cub and eagle threatening so she jumped 3 metres up the tree!Wow! Moremi South gate. Burcell's zebra with foal near airstrip. Tawny eagle, elephants. Flight to Selinde Motsiri camp. Greeted in song. African jacana, fish eagle, owl. Lovely room and I did a drawing from our porch across the river. At lunch met German couple, couple from Virginia, crew doing new camp website and Kitty from Grantham who helps with the horses. Witness, Machete, Setsworo, Debbie manager. Out at 4 on boat dragonflies, fishing group caught bream and catfish. We had bream for dinner. Water lilies, pink flowers, pied and malachite kingfishers, swallows, hippos. gin and tonic at sunset and moon coming up. Elephants. caught right foot getting off boat and fell on bum but OK. Heard result of election and finished reading Middlemarch.

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