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JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT THE RAIN WAS OVER - HAIL!
Posted by David Dugmore on May 11, 2006 in Boteti Diaries
When my hunter father brought his hunter family to Botswana from Kenya in 1970, because it was on the cards Kenya was about to put a nationwide ban on hunting, I was amazed at the extreme seasonal changes in Southern Africa. We had never experienced this in East Africa, living on the equator. It seemed to rain all year round in Kenya, whereas I don’t remember it raining at all in Maun during the first year we were here. And yet the Thamalakane River that flows through Maun was always full of water. It was as wide as the floodplains all the way through the Okavango Delta and down to Lake Ngami and the Boteti River. But no rain! Acres of red mopane leaves lying in the wind blown rippled sand.