Zambia and Zimbabwe

Kariba Town

On the Zim-Zam border at Kariba Dam, which forms Lake Kariba - the largest man-made lake in the world

Yep, that was a zebra crossing!

Guinea Fowl

Sundowners at Lake Kariba, to the sound of Jabba the Hutt laughing (well, that's what the hippos sound like!)

Ripples

Ripples 2

Zambezi Paddling

Smiling crocodile

Local fisherman

Me watching hippo watching Rachel

White-fronted Bee-eater

Sundowners on the Zambezi

Canoes at dawn

KK steering my canoe

Rachel and Norman, with Thomas bringing up the rear

White-crowned Lapwing

Elephant

Rachel gets up close and personal

The elephant has found a cattle egret

Elephant

Cattle Egret

Time to stop bothering it!

African Openbill

Hippos rush for the river as we approach

Springbok herd on the bank

Hippo eyeing us off carefully

Approaching a hippo

Egyptian Goose

Norman scouting ahead for hippos in the channel

African Fish Eagle

Sunset on the reeds

Sunset at camp, enjoying Savannah Drys

Sunrise over the Zambezi

Norman and Rachel

Spur-winged Goose

Egyptian Geese

Waterbucks

Wire-tailed Swallow

A pair of African Fish Eagles

African Fish Eagle in flight

Hippo watching

Rachel and Norman take to the shallows to avoid the hippos

Pied Wagtail

Pied Wagtail in flight

Zambezi River scene

Someone is blocking the channel!

River scene

Malachite Kingfisher

Goliath Heron taking off

Black Crake

Purple Heron

Having a bucket shower at the final camp on the river

Canoes and camp

Ripples

Sunset on the reeds

Normal, KK, Rachel and Thomas

Egyptian Geese fly across the sun

Hippo at sunrise

Heading off down the river

Buffalo with resident oxpeckers

Cattle Egret in flight

Egyptian Geese

African Jacana

Cattle Egret

Black-winged Stilt

Black-winged Stilts

Baobab Tree

Rachel under a big baobab

The paddling crew - KK, Thomas, Rachel, Norman, Tom

Siavonga (Zambia)

Rachel on the Southern Belle

Sundowners

The entryway of the Southern Belle