Conservation

Okavango Journal Day 15

Two years ago, on my first Delta crossing, I asked Gobonamang Kgetho a question that I thought was fairly straight…

Okavango Journal Day 15

We’re well within motorboat range of Maun, and as such we’ve been seeing a lot more… well, motorboats. And a lot more…

#Okavango16 Journal Day 11

Today a 2,000kg hippo crashed through the reed bed and nearly over top of Chris’s mokoro. When it reached the…

Okavango Journal Day 8

My son turns 1 today. I wrote this letter this morning for him.

Okavango Journal Day 7

Mornings on expedition start around 5:45am, when the first person (almost always research manager Götz Neef) wakes up to resuscitate last night’s fire. A percolator gets first shift over the coals, followed by a giant tea kettle. The early shift (by then usually 3 or 4) gets to watch the…

Okavango Journal #6

I have some bad news about a rock.

Earlier in the year, Steve heard from a Ba’Yei elder — Comet, that many years ago, local fishermen would often stop at a large island in the Delta and sharpen their knives on a rock.

#Okavango Journal Day 5

Botswana’s official national sport is soccer, but its unofficial one is predicting the annual Delta floods. Sit at…

#Okavango16 Journal Day 4

When we pull up our mekoro in Maun on September 4th, we’ll have travelled 340km as the saddle-billed stork flies…

#Okavango16 Journal Day 3

Today we stopped in at Jedibe, a Ba’yei village of about 100 people. We were there to get some supplies and to…

#Okavango16 Journal Day 2

“Kuba!”

After a full day of calling out bird sightings (“Fish Eagle!” “Goliath Heron!”…