April 16 Leopards are very elusive animals but our guides have some useful tools they can use. The first one is the radio that allows communication among all the guides. We have about 10 different guides in the park at one time so if one guide spots something he will radio all the others as…

April 15 Chobe National Park is a huge wildlife park of 11,000 sq. km. in Botswana. We saw many elephants in the park. They tend to go down to river in the morning and return to the wooded area later in the day. They mostly eat 2 kinds of trees – the Acacia and the…

April 15 Giraffes are the tallest land animals in the world. They are easy to see; that is why we found quite a few in the park. Giraffes eat foliage up in the tree canopy. They prefer Acacia trees and they occasionally eat bark. They usually eat about 75 pounds of foliage each day. All…

April 14 We take a bus on a 1 1/2 hr. drive to Botswana. It is a former British Protectorate; it never was a colony. The British never even set up an office here. It officially became its own country in 1966. It is the most sparsely populated country in the world. It is about…

April 13 Today Tyler and I went on a tour of the Victoria Falls bridge in Zambia. Actually the bridge is half in Zambia and half in Zimbabwe but we had to travel to Zambia to start the tour and then we walked to Zimbabwe. The bridge was built in 1905 in England, taken apart,…

April 12 Joining me in the search for the rhinoceros in the Stanley Livingston National Park in Zimbabwe are Tyler, Corrine, Corrie and Glenn. We know that they like waterholes like this so we travel through the park on the lookout for waterholes and huge animals. Our guide tells us that there are only 12…

April 11 It is hard to describe the immensity of Victoria Falls. It is a mile wide waterfall on the Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia. It is a world heritage site, the largest waterfall in the world. It crashes 300’ down into a narrow cataract of the river creating masses of water vapor and…

April 11: We arrived at the Victoria Falls hotel at 1 PM after a 1 hour 40 minute flight from Johannesburg. We were traveling north and moved 800 miles closer to the equator so the temperature moved up to 85 and the humidity moved up to 80%. The hotel is a beautiful building about 100…

April 10 Today we visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. It is a beautiful museum landscaped in the African veldt style with many beautiful grasses and African succulents. The naturalistic landscape has many drifts of grasses along the gravel and brick walkways. Along the entry are Gabon walls filled with rocks produced in the mining…

We met our tour guide, Russell, today and he didn’t plan any tours for us so we could get organized and cleaned up after 24 hours in planes and 2 days of traveling. I decided to go to Johannesburg Botanical Gardens. The gardens are huge – hundreds of acres but very disorganized. They had this…