SUMMER RAINS & OKAVANGO FLOOD
A belated Happy New year, February already!!! ‘Time flies when you are having fun’, so I must be having a lot of fun! Mmmm???
Operating safaris in the rain is quite a challenge. That’s why once upon a time safaris only operated in the dry season, and because not so long ago there were only hunting safaris in operation. And the summer months are the wildlife breeding season, for most of them. Now with non hunting safaris operating throughout the year into the summer rains, we are faced with having to deal with muddy roads, sitting in open safari cars, impressive tropical storms dropping buckets of water on us. Leaking tents, flooded camps, no fires for cooking, wet toilet paper! Whinging tourists! “Came to the Kalahari to get away from this bloody awful weather!” We love it. We need as much rain as we can get.