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EARLY RAIN CATCHES US WITH OUR PANTS …AND TENTS DOWN!
Posted by David Dugmore on Nov 3, 2007 in Boteti Diaries
We are so desperate for rain now at the end of the dry season. We dream about it, dance for it, wish for rain. BUT! Be careful of what you wish for!!!
At the end of September one of our saltpans experience safaris was ready to head out into the middle of the saltpans from base camp, on the edge of this vast flat dry lake bed. The intense heat building up the last week was unusual for the end of the winter, should have been a lot milder. There was no distinguishing where the pan surface met the sky, the horizon shimmered ahead of the quad bike safari convoy as they entered the 13,000 sq km pans. Hot salty dust air stung sunburned faces, eyes squinting from intense light reflecting off scorched bone white saltpan.