Vulture in flight over the Chimbwi Airstrip |
Great White Egret on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps |
Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps |
Great White Egret on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps |
Egret and Open-billed Stork |
Landcruiser in the soggy ground on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps |
"Mix Petrol 50% Avgaz 50%" - that made me very nervous since probably the only Avgas around was in my airplane... |
Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) perched on the windsock of Chimbwi Airstrip |
Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) perched on the windsock of Chimbwi Airstrip |
Wattled Crane (Bugeranus carunculatus), Bangweulu Flats |
Wattled crane with a herd of black lechwe |
Wattled Crame, Bangweulu Flats |
Wattled Crame, Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe or Bangweulu Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), endemic |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani) |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani) |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani) |
Someone having fun with a termite mound |
Heading into the woodlands on the edge of Bangweulu Flats to look for Tsessebe |
Termite mound, Bangweulu Flats |
African Green Pigeon (Treron calva) |
The driver from Kasanka Trust |
Herd of Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) in the distance |
The Tessebe were difficult to approach - maybe because the driver says they taste better than the lechwe... |
Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) |
Tsessebe like the woodlands on the edge of the Bangweulu Flats |
Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) |
Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) |
Nicole spotting wildlife with a Mosi |
Ralph filming with a Mosi |
The Tessebe wander off into the woodlands |
Land Rover, Bangweulu Flats |
Termite mounds, Bangweulu Flats |
Termite mounds, Bangweulu Flats |
Winke, winke! |
The second vehicle carrying the polers, Bangweulu Flats |
Bangweulu Flats |
Back among the vast herds of Black Lechwe that populate the Bangweulu Flats |
I slept through it, but some of the others said it sounded like a freight train when a herd of lechwe passed the camp at night |
Bangweulu Flats |
Herds of Black Lechwe numbering in the hundreds |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
The herd takes off - Black Lechwe running |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats |
The herds were rather skittish |
Black lechwe, Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe easily leaping over an embankment |
Black Lechwe jumping with the main herd in the distance |
Black Lechwe jumping with the main herd in the distance |
Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe easily leaping over an embankment |
Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe herds covering the Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats |
Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats |
Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats |
The driver spotted the zebra from miles away |
Zebra mixing with the herd of Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats |
We were later told that the zebra originally came from Mansha River Conservancy |
Zebra vastly outnumbered by Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats |
Zebra vastly outnumbered by Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats |
Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats |
Clouds over the Bangweulu Flats |
Black Lechwe in full flight across the Bangweulu Flats |
Open Billed Stork, Bangweulu Flats |
Sunset, Bangweulu Flats |
Sunset, Bangweulu Flats |
Driver heading back to pick up the rest of the group |
Reinhold has not been abandoned |
Land Rover crossing the Bangweulu Flats |
Land Rover fighting its way through the mud on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps |
Amazing they don't get stuck... |
Luckily the camp issued us gumboots for the mud |
Sunset with a mokoro |
The next morning, the Land Rover had a flat so we had to walk back to the airstrip |
One of the polers from Shoebill Island Camp |
Guide posing with Land Rover |
...he's a poser... |
Anna hiking across the marshy ground towards the airstrip |
Until a few weeks earlier, the airstrip was unusable because it was wet like this |
Back at Chimbwi Airstrip for the flight to Shiwa Ngandu |