Posted by David Dugmore on Nov 11, 2008 in
Boteti Diaries BREAKING NEWS! Big deal the United States of America has a new president with roots in Africa! Here in Botswana we have a new president with roots in the United Kingdom!!!
OKAVANGO & BOTETI FLOOD
As miracles are being realised in the west, so too are we experiencing the miracle of the rebirth of a river, lost for over a decade, returning life to a desolate world! The Boteti River is flowing deeper into the thirsty Kalahari than it has for sixteen years. A significant volume of water is seeping into the heart of the dry desert sands from the Okavango Delta. There is no other permanent water in Botswana besides the Okavango. Only the great green greasy Limpopo River a thousand kilometres to the south, and the Chobe, five hundred kilometres in the north.
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Tags: Angola, Grasslands, Horizons, Moremi, Riverine, San, Sunsets, Tracking, wildlife
Posted by David Dugmore on Sep 4, 2007 in
Boteti Diaries Maun Game Reserve is the small wildlife sanctuary opposite the central business district of Maun, our urban village, as it is still considered for now, pending town status approval. The tourism capital of Botswana. This small reserve is home to wildebeest, giraffe, warthog, impala, baboons, and a small herd of about 20 zebra. The Thamalakane River acts as the barrier between the donkeys and zebras. The river is higher than we have seen it in over a decade or more. There is still a huge amount of water flowing through the Okavango Delta, spilling over into the Thamalakane, and Lake Ngami.
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Tags: Bleeding, Bush Man, Conservancy, Courtship, Cultural Safaris, Digital Cameras, Film, Giraffe, Impala, Kills, Lake Ngami, Leopard, Mating, Maun, Prey, Research, Rhino, San, Tracking Collars, Traditional, Trekking, Warthog
Posted by David Dugmore on Jul 18, 2007 in
Boteti Diaries Here we are in July already. Crikey! The last ‘burning the candle’ moments I had to write the Boteti Diaries was in February!!! Yup, been a crazy busy year here at Meno A Kwena, in fact all over the place has been busy busy busy…and so I attempt to catch up best I can with a more summarised version of the goings on …and not, …the doings and undoings of life here in and out of the Botswana bush. A combination of the poor rains we had this last summer, and camp being a lot more busy with eager and demanding visitors has dominated most of my time. The transition from not being busy enough to too busy has meant that we have to move on from crisis management to a lot more organised direction. We do our best!
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Tags: Animals, Biologically, Birds, Black Rhino, Breeding, Conditions, Females, Fundraising, Gaborone, Habits, History, Locations, Males, Populations, Relocation, San, Shotgun, Stalking, White Rhino, Wilderness, Young