Well, that is what I planned to title the article. I spent two weeks examining more than a dozen different bean bag designs for supporting camera and telephoto lens on safari. I developed a rating system and thought I could come up with the one true winner. It doesn’t work that way – life...
“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be...
The good news is that the primary trails used on game drives in Chobe really don’t need a map. The bad news is that the quality of easily acquired maps is poor. The attached image is a scan of the map provided by rangers at the Chobe Sedudu Gate entrance: and ……….. A larger...
One of my favorite animals within Chobe NP is the Kudu. It’s a beautiful and tall animal with lots of pattern and subtle color changes on the hide… and of course, on the bull kudu, those horns! Kudu are found at Chobe National Park both near waters edge at the Chobe River and also...
When preparing for a safari to northern Botswana, including Chobe National Park, Moremi, Linyanti and the Okavango Delta, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends numerous precautions including Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B and Typhoid. Also recommended are anti-Malarial drugs. From my experience, no one seems to my the immunizations shots, but the anti...
Nikon shooters will debate this, but for non-pro Canon shooters, this is big news. I have loved my 1.6x crop 50D, but on safari, it’s 9 focus points with only one being cross type have left me “out of focus” on some critical shots when panning or at low light. Further, I have always...
Summary of Chobe General information gathered at www.andbeoundafrica.com Chobe was declared a National Park in 1967, becoming the first National Park in Botswana and is home to one of the largest concentrations of elephant on the African continent. Chobe is also well known for its large herds of buffalo, as well as the two...
Most visitors to Chobe National Park stay at or near Kasane. Each day they enter the eastern Sedudu Gate and follow the fabulous trails. Most never go further west than Serondela. I must confess that on my first trip to Chobe, that was all I did also. The wildlife is so thick and the...
