There is a small piece of water in the neighbourhood, but if you want to
swim you get out as the local mud-creature. It is a pity because it is
quit hot!.
That afternoon we make our first bushwalk (=gamewalk). The rules are very simple. We walk in a line
and we keep our mouth shut (for some that's a real problem). Anthony tells
interesting stuff about the plants, the game and the tracks. We see the
footprints of lions, hyena, giraffe, etc. We also see excrements of all
kind of animals. We encounter baboons 
,
wildebeast 
,
impala 
,
kudu, vlakvarkies, some birds and a few hippo-eyes.
At night a group of baboons is sleeping in the trees above us. After sunset they climb up. It is a lot of noise! Just after sunrise they disappear very, very quickly. They aren't aggressive and don't steal anything.
The second bushwalk is a long trip in a nice environment
.
We walk for five hours 
searching for lions. We encounter a lot of lion tracks, but we come allways
at a dead end. The chance of meeting a lion is not very big, less than
10%. Normally they smell us a lot earlier then that we can spot them and
they will disappear .What we do see are: Elephant 
,
Fisheagle 
,
Marabou Stork 
,
Wildebeast 
,
Civet, Tsesebe, Kudu 
,
Zebra 
,
Saddlebilled Stork 
,
Eagle 
and a lot of tracks.
There is a shortage of drinking water these days. The watertank is leaking and empty within a day. The water in the mud pool is drinkable (Anthony says) but it doesn't taste very wel (an englishmen called it 'murky'). Some of our fellow travelers bought a lot of alcohol containing liquids and forgot about real drinking water. This leads to a somewhat unpleasant situation. As a solution we get Anthony to drive to the 'main river' of the delta. We can take a swim overthere in the best beauty parlor of the world (incl. scrub and elephant dong)
(Thanks Chris for this picture!) and we fill the leaking tank with river
water so we can drink something 
.
We don't trust this water very much but when you are thirsty you drink
everything! Nobody got sick, however. The hole of the bush-wc was deep
enough and didn't fill up to the rim 
.
On the way back we see a drinking elephant
.
He looks healthy also. A part of the group makes a third gamewalk in the
evening. But you can't have pictures from everything!
