Mid-afternoon sun glistening off the deep blue waters of the Chobe River as I hurry to meet my boat for an afternoon safari cruise. To my surprise my boat has left, but another boat of 55-80 year old retirees from South Africa are willing to take me. As we embark to do a mid-river transfer to the boat I am supposed to be on, the retirees ask me to stay on and join them on the water. I stayed, and it made me miss my grandmother almost to the point of tears. The people were so kind to me and helpful and were eager to identify the various bird species and let me get around them to shoot some photos. As soon as I can shoot and uplaod the photos I will do a photo post, but it was wonderful and relaxing. In addition to the multitude of bird life I saw monitor lizards, elephants, buffalo, hippos, crocs, puku, giraffe, kudu and impala.
The sun set against a cloudless sky and bounced off the ripples in the water. It was breathtakingly beautiful as Botswana always is. Tomorrow morning I may go on a safari drive in the morning. There can never be too many opportunities for me to shoot pictures.
