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Dawn over the Okavango Delta, the largest inland delta in the world, and one of the world's greatest ecological treasures. It is a watery paradise where fish, birds and animals proliferate in the virtual absence of humans. Below, a sunset.  |
This is the
180 degree opposite view, from the balcony of the building you see above,
out over the delta. Adventure awaits down around the bend on the
meandering channel which leads off to your right. You'll get there
in a makoro, a dug-out made from a sausage tree, poled along
by your guide. Our guide Dix is in the photo, taking my parents out;
he lost his own father to the jaws of a hippo, doing the same job many
years earlier.
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In Zimbabwe,
Deb and I pose in front of a 1,500 year old boabab tree on the banks of
the river that flows over Victoria Falls.
We
visited a crocodile ranch, where Deb considered taking one as a pet, but
was persuaded that she already has a large enough menagerie at home...
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Good thing I dissuaded her: little crocs soon grow up to be really big ones. Mind you, in Zimbabwe, that's no problem: they simply become steaks, purses, leather belts...  |
Zimbabwean's also know how to keep the tourists under control. |
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and Deborah's breath was taken away by a sight that not many people experience in a lifetime: an elephant herd visiting the water hole for a bath and a long drink. |
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In Bulawayo,
we hooked up - by pure co-incidence - with Calvin Peters, who teaches at
Trinity College here in Toronto, and we visited the Great Zimbabwe together
Perhaps Africa pried loose some
part of Calvin's deep inner nature - or perhaps it was just the Mefloquin...(I
have no excuse, I get this way on a regular basis)
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