And that is exactly what I am doing. Angola is across the river, the Okavango again, and a sausage tree is on the bank immediately in front of me. Its fruit look exactly like large sausages. You would just need to plant the beer tree next to it... Before going on about that though I did want to finish catching up and mention our time in Botswana's Chobe National Park, between Vic Falls and the Okavango.
Remember when you were a kid and the Africa you knew was from shows such as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom ("Jim will now jump in with the starving crocodiles... ")? Remember how many animals there were and how wide open the land was with no fences or roads? Remember then the letdown as you realized Africa probably wasn't like that anymore? Well, take heart, some parts still are and Chobe is one of them (minus Marlin Perkins in his natty safari suit). So many elephants that they become almost boring, but only almost, and ditto for the hippos (sorry...). Perhaps the single best day of wildlife viewing I have ever experienced.
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