Moremi – December 2008 A drive through Moremi National Park with the kids during rainy season, with some concrete action thrown in.
What can you see? (Look the other way, in the bushes.)
|
What can you see? (In the bushes.)
|
Typical housekeeping.
|
Is he coming this way?
|
Elephant strolling past Moremi, South Gate.
|
One of many waterholes on the road to Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Making a splash.
|
Vultures at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
A vulture tree at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Dig in. Lion cub on a buffalo kill at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lioness and cub at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lion on a buffalo kill at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lion cub on a buffalo kill at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lioness and cubs on a buffalo kill at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lioness tired of being photographed.
|
Vultures waiting for the lion to finish at Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
I’m full, let me sleep. Lion cubs at a buffalo kill near Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lion cub going for the juicy bits of a buffalo.
|
Vultures overlooking lion on a buffalo kill near Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lion cub on a buffalo kill near Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
A damp lion cub in the rain near Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Lion cub relaxing.
|
A maribu stork (I think).
|
Buffalo roadblock on the road near Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Buffalo in the rain, Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Buffalo in the rain, Xakanaka, Moremi.
|
Naomi, draining the water out of the car (note to selfish drivers: position car so driver’s side is higher when stopping in water).
|
Fording the deepest water crossing on the main track between Xakanaka and North Gate, Moremi.
|
Made it. First time I came here I spent the next 3 hours on the end of a tow-rope.
|
Discretion the better part of valour. Finding an alternative route round a shallow but soft, muddy section of flooded road.
|
Weaving through the woods.
|
Rejoining the main track.
|
Water, water, everywhere.
|
What we drove around – not deep, but very soft.
|
Nice weather for ducks.
|
Naomi takes lovely pictures of zebra’s bottoms. Look carefully and you’ll see that no two are the same.
|
Mohican zebra.
|
The famous two-headed, five-legged zebra.
|
Impala grazing around a flooded pan.
|
Dombo Hippo Pool near North Gate, Moremi, No hippo.
|
An enterprising personal injury lawyer should staple his business card to the viewing platform at Dombo Hippo Pool.
|
Giraffe being aloof (as they so often are) near North Gate, Moremi.
|
Taking core samples of concrete suspected of being below strength.
|
You didn’t think we were doing all that driving for fun did you?
|
Drilling a concrete core from a ringbeam – water flushes out the dust and cools the cutting edge.
|
A pair of concrete cores as drilled out of a foundation.
|
The same core samples from the other side. Steel reinforcing mesh can be seen in the left hand core.
|
Concrete samples cored from a ringbeam.
|
|
|
