This year's Botswana's trip had a number of surprises. On arrival at Savuti we found the Savuti Channel flowing. This is a first for something like 24 years. Simply astonishing. So instead of seeing dusty elephants coming down to the small waterholes in droves, we found wading lions (and apparently swimming Cheetah), trying to get to their usual side of the Channel, and a variety of diverse wildlife not ordinarily seen at Savuti. And then at Duba, we had magnificent lightning storms, a lazy and uncoordinated Duba lion pride but lots of dusty elephants! All in all, the diversity of wildlife was outstanding - we have updated this site with our trip report and some of the hundreds of photographs taken.
We're now getting prepared for Antarctica - this will be our second expedition to South Georgia, the Falklands and the Antarctic Peninsula. We set off in two weeks and in the meantime we are hoping to get our hands on two of the new Canon 5D Mark 2. We have contacts scouring Japan for us, given the wait list everywhere else. So, it's a bit of a nail biter before we get away...
Very tragic news in Mumbai of course. Words fail during times like these.
Hoping you are all well and safe.
Julie and Adam
