Moremi and Third bridge encounters.

Moremi Wildlife Reserve.  Very underrated – kicks Etosha’s butt and is only better than Mahangu because it is bigger. We had quite a bumpy drive to Third bridge campsite, the name comes from its location – the 3rd bridge crossing from Maun to Chobe. Well actually, we missed one of the bridge crossings completely because the roads change according to the weather. And, of course because we are talking delta here, these roads flood big time, which means last years tracks4africa road maps on the GPS were obsolete.  What happens is, when one road is completely submerged, a new and improved one slowly evolves around the sunken tracks, from all the detouring vehicles.  It works pretty well, but is a bit of a laugh when you come across a specific road made around a fallen tree - the tracks are so well set, you would think that tree had been there for years, not from some raging Elephant the week before.

We saw hippos (one walked to a waterhole 20 metres away from the car, Stuart got a great photo but walked back to the car pretty fast), a wattled crane, an egret, a family of warthogs (dam you Lion King!), lots of badly disguised giraffes, an elephant with boobs (excuse my immaturity but I bet you havn't seen one!) and more.

Finally, we made it to our site, absolutely oblivious to what was going to happen that evening – Whenever we retell the story to others, we call it “When ‘babs’ attacked”.