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Take off stork style. Okavango Delta, Botswana.

A fairly common sight on the Okavango Delta is the Saddle-billed Stork either wading through the shallow waters or flying overhead.

Doorway to secrets

A doorway within Johannesburg’s notorious ‘cell block 4’ where prisoners were held in atrocious conditions during the apartheid era.

Channel through reeds. Okavango Delta, Botswana

A shallow bottomed motor boat allows you to access the channels and reed beds of the Okavango Delta.

Seed head, Okavango Delta, Botswana

taken from a mokoro, a timber canoe, whilst slowly navigating the waterways of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Lion and Red Lechwe.

at home in the semi-aquatic environment with large hooves for running over swampy ground, the lechwe maintain a distance from which, they can easily avoid lion.

Sunset, Okavango Delta, Botswana

A blazing sun sets in a blood-red sky over the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Open Billed Storks, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Sunset over the Okavango Delta, Botswana, and a flock of open billed storks fly home for the evening.

Banded Mongoose, Botswana

banded mongoose live in large colonies and are active, social animals, spending much of their time foraging through leaf litter looking for insects and grubs.

Lion Portrait, Okavango Delta, Botswana

Early morning in the Okavango Delta, with low angled, warm light, a majestic lion patrols his territory.

Pied Kingfisher, Okavango Delta, Botswana

A pied kingfisher obligingly poses on a twig.  This species is frequently sighted both hovering over water and also perched as shown here.