#Okavango16 Journal Day 8

Jer Thorp
Okavango Journal
Published in
4 min readAug 25, 2016
Photo by @shahselbe

Today we spent just 90 minutes on the water, transiting from ‘Out There Island’ to Buffalo Skull.

I’m going to let the data speak for itself:

08:13am — 12 Wild Dog
08:37am — 1 Bushbuck
09:15am — 10 Lesser Striped Swallow
09:16am — 12 African Palm-Swift
09:17am — 1 Crocodile
09:17am — 10 Banded Martin
09:18am — 1 Crocodile
09:24am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
09:25am — 1 Grey Go-Away-Bird
09:29am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
09:30am — 8 Common House-Martin
09:31am — 2 Red-Billed Buffalo-Weaver
09:32am — 3 Rufous-Naped Lark
09:35am — 3 African Grey Hornbill
09:39am — 5 African Red-Eyed Bulbul
09:46am — 1 Rufous-Naped Lark
09:58am — 3 African Grey Hornbill
10:13am — 2 Little Egret
10:15am — 1 Great Egret
10:15am — 1 Reed Cormorant
10:15am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:15am — 1 African Openbill Stork
10:17am — 2 Reed Cormorant
10:17am — 1 Sacred Ibis
10:18am — 2 Water Thick-Knee
10:18am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:18am — 3 Southern Ground-Hornbill
10:18am — 1 Glossy Ibis
10:19am — 1 Squacco Heron
10:19am — 8 Hadeda Ibis
10:20am — 2 White-Faced Duck
10:20am — 1 Little Bee-Eater
10:23am — 2 Reed Cormorant
10:24am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:24am — 1 Squacco Heron
10:24am — 2 Little Egret
10:25am — 2 Sacred Ibis
10:25am — 1 Red Lechwe
10:26am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:27am — 1 Reed Cormorant
10:27am — 2 African Fish Eagle
10:28am — 3 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:28am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:31am — 2 Pied Kingfisher
10:32am — 4 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:32am — 4 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:33am — 2 Egyptian Goose
10:33am — 1 African Fish Eagle
10:33am — 1 Green-Backed Heron
10:34am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:35am — 1 Red Lechwe
10:38am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:38am — 1 Little Egret
10:38am — 2 Red Lechwe
10:38am — 1 Blacksmith Lapwing
10:38am — 1 Squacco Heron
10:38am — 1 Swamp Boubou
10:38am — 1 Green-Backed Heron
10:40am — 7 Red Lechwe
10:40am — 3 Sacred Ibis
10:40am — 1 Great Egret
10:41am — 1 Reed Cormorant
10:41am — 3 Egyptian Goose
10:42am — 10 Red Lechwe
10:42am — 3 Reed Cormorant
10:42am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:44am — 35 Red Lechwe
10:44am — 10 Zebra
10:45am — 2 Red Lechwe
10:46am — 3 Wort Hog
10:46am — 82 Red Lechwe
10:52am — 35 Savanah Elephant
10:53am — 40 Zebra
10:53am — 4 Giraffe
10:53am — 1 African Fish Eagle
10:53am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
10:53am — 50 Impala
10:54am — 30 Red Lechwe
10:54am — 10 Egyptian Goose
10:55am — 10 Spur-Winged Goose
10:55am — 2 Pied Kingfisher
10:56am — 2 Blackwing Stilt
10:57am — 2 African Skimmer
10:57am — 3 Sacred Ibis
10:57am — 2 African Darter
10:57am — 10 Giraffe
10:57am — 2 Egyptian Goose
10:57am — 6 Reed Cormorant
10:58am — 4 African Skimmer
10:58am — 1 African Stilt
10:58am — 2 African Stilt
10:59am — 11 Sacred Ibis
10:59am — 20 Egyptian Goose
11:01am — 21 Egyptian Goose
11:01am — 4 Grey Heron
11:01am — 10 Cattle Egret
11:03am — 1 Whiskered Tern
11:15am — 5 Giraffe
11:16am — 1 Whiskered Tern
11:16am — 10 Sacred Ibis
11:16am — 5 Pied Kingfisher
11:17am — 2 Pied Kingfisher
11:18am — 1 Glossy Ibis
11:18am — 5 Great Egret
11:18am — 4 Little Egret
11:18am — 20 Egyptian Goose
11:18am — 12 Red Lechwe
11:19am — 4 African Jacana
11:19am — 1 Blacksmith Lapwing
11:19am — 1 Red Lechwe
11:21am — 1 Worthog
11:21am — 4 Grey Heron
11:21am — 20 Blackwing Stilt
11:22am — 1 Impala
11:23am — 4 Red Lechwe
11:23am — 1 Common Sandpiper
11:24am — 3 African Darter
11:25am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
11:25am — 1 African Jacana
11:27am — 1 Hippopotamus
11:27am — 5 White-Faced Duck
11:27am — 5 Red-Billed Teal
11:27am — 1 Little Grebe
11:28am — 2 African Jacana
11:29am — 2 African Jacana
11:29am — 1 Squacco Heron
11:29am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
11:29am — 1 African Darter
11:30am — 1 Squacco Heron
11:30am — 2 Water Thick-Knee
11:30am — 2 Red Lechwe
11:31am — 1 Reed Cormorant
11:31am — 1 African Marsh Harrier
11:31am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
11:31am — 1 African Fish Eagle
11:31am — 3 Sacred Ibis
11:31am — 2 Water Thick-Knee
11:32am — 3 Blacksmith Lapwing
11:32am — 2 Little Egret
11:32am — 60 Zebra
11:33am — 3 Red Lechwe
11:34am — 2 Reed Cormorant
11:34am — 2 Savanah Elephant
11:34am — 2 Blacksmith Lapwing
11:34am — 2 African Fish Eagle
11:34am — 4 Hadeda Ibis
11:36am — 1 African Jacana
11:36am — 5 Sacred Ibis
11:36am — 2 Little Egret
11:36am — 2 African Jacana
11:36am — 1 Kudu
11:37am — 3 Savanah Elephant
11:37am — 1 African Darter
11:37am — 1 Common Sandpiper
11:37am — 1 Pied Kingfisher
11:37am — 5 Egyptian Goose
11:37am — 1 Common Sandpiper
11:38am — 5 Glossy Ibis
11:42am — 2 Hippopotamus

#Okavango16 is a National Geographic expedition into the heart of the Okavango Delta. Year 7 of a 9 year project, this year’s trip aims to pair biodiversity with environmental data from a permanent sensor array we are deploying across the Delta. Find out more on our website — IntoTheOkavango.org.

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Jer Thorp
Okavango Journal

Jer Thorp is an artist, writer & teacher. He is Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His book Living in Data is out now from MCDxFSG.