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Early drive 4 lionesses and a cub playing on the road, red billed hoopoe, impala running, heron, darter, Egyptian goose, egret, Meyer's parrots, coucal, wild basil, finches, crowned cranes flying, lapwing, cormorant, jacana Jesus bird, grazing hippo, saddle billed stork, vultures and cranes circling in sky, darter drying wings, hammerkop, dwarf bittern, Khwai village and across bridge to Moremi North gate. Monkeys, egrets, Fork-tailed drongo, red billed quelea, little bee eater, bearded woodpecker, red Lechwe, spurwing goose, waterbuck, zebra. Night elephants trumpeting, zebras, hippos, Impala, springhares, . LAst morning storks, hippo out of water, said goodbye. we both awake in the night. wait for plane at 8 a.m. came 8.30 Charlotte the pilot flew us to Kasane. lovely book fm Rob and Charlotte about Savute. 1 hour flight Chobe river and to river crossing.  Long queues of huge lorries waiting to cross bridge being built. Herbert met us (now I am your father) sorted out visa into ...

12/6 woke 1 and 4 but slept well colder. Decided not to night ride as tired. Kudu bull, ducks, yellow billed stork, fish eagle, red lechwe, reedbuck, elephant, zebra, giraffe, geese, vervet monkey, 2 lionesses eating zebra foal so close I sketched her. Annoyed at other car making so much noise she moved the foal. Big croc. Egret, zebra mother calling for foal,Impala running, hippo grazing, 5 bull elephants using scratching post. 12 zebras eating salt. Warthogs, animals smell the blood, kudu licking salt, red billed oxpecker, 2 white headed cranes, 3 elephants one tusk sketch. Scarlet roller, baby elephant, long crested eagle, double banded sand grouse, spoonbill, sacred ibis, yellow billed stork, double banded teal, 10 female waterbuck, 1 male. Gland makes hide soft. Male red lechwe and 18 females 2 males. Night ride hyenas, elephant, hippo, silver backed jackals, springhare, brown hare, leopard . Got staff names for tips Bishop the cook, Modise, Meta, Jospeh looked after us so well....

7/6 6 a.m. Nice breakfast at the camp fire tomorrow I am having porridge! Red lechwe, plover, weaver birds,hippos running, tsessebe, white faced duck, Guinea fowl chicks, sausage tree, rain tree, fish eagles, 2 lioness, bateleur eagle, termite hill, daggers, poison apple where we stopped for tea, baboons, lilac roller, squirrel, storks, White egret, pied kingfisher, roller, glossy starlings, loads of hornbills, giraffe drinking, reedbuck running, elephant, lots of giraffe. 15 lions resting and setting off to hunt at sunset, pelican.