Bangweulu Flats

Vulture in flight over the Chimbwi Airstrip	Great White Egret on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps	Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps	Great White Egret on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps
Egret and Open-billed Stork	Landcruiser in the soggy ground on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps	"Mix Petrol 50% Avgaz 50%" - that made me very nervous since probably the only Avgas around was in my airplane...	Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) perched on the windsock of Chimbwi Airstrip
Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) perched on the windsock of Chimbwi Airstrip	Wattled Crane (Bugeranus carunculatus), Bangweulu Flats	Wattled crane with a herd of black lechwe	Wattled Crame, Bangweulu Flats
Wattled Crame, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe or Bangweulu Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), endemic	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani)	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani)
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani)	Someone having fun with a termite mound	Heading into the woodlands on the edge of Bangweulu Flats to look for Tsessebe	Termite mound, Bangweulu Flats
African Green Pigeon (Treron calva)	The driver from Kasanka Trust	Herd of Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) in the distance	The Tessebe were difficult to approach - maybe because the driver says they taste better than the lechwe...
Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)	Tsessebe like the woodlands on the edge of the Bangweulu Flats	Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)	Common Tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus)
Nicole spotting wildlife with a Mosi	Ralph filming with a Mosi	The Tessebe wander off into the woodlands	Land Rover, Bangweulu Flats
Termite mounds, Bangweulu Flats	Termite mounds, Bangweulu Flats	Winke, winke!	The second vehicle carrying the polers, Bangweulu Flats
Bangweulu Flats	Back among the vast herds of Black Lechwe that populate the Bangweulu Flats	I slept through it, but some of the others said it sounded like a freight train when a herd of lechwe passed the camp at night	Bangweulu Flats
Herds of Black Lechwe numbering in the hundreds	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	The herd takes off - Black Lechwe running	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats
Herd of Black Lechwe running, Bangweulu Flats	The herds were rather skittish	Black lechwe, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe easily leaping over an embankment
Black Lechwe jumping with the main herd in the distance	Black Lechwe jumping with the main herd in the distance	Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe easily leaping over an embankment
Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe jumping, Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe herds covering the Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats
Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani), Bangweulu Flats	Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats	Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats
The driver spotted the zebra from miles away	Zebra mixing with the herd of Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats	We were later told that the zebra originally came from Mansha River Conservancy	Zebra vastly outnumbered by Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats
Zebra vastly outnumbered by Black Lechwe, Bangweulu Flats	Distant shower, Bangweulu Flats	Clouds over the Bangweulu Flats	Black Lechwe in full flight across the Bangweulu Flats
Open Billed Stork, Bangweulu Flats	Sunset, Bangweulu Flats	Sunset, Bangweulu Flats	Driver heading back to pick up the rest of the group
Reinhold has not been abandoned	Land Rover crossing the Bangweulu Flats	Land Rover fighting its way through the mud on the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps	Amazing they don't get stuck...
Luckily the camp issued us gumboots for the mud	Sunset with a mokoro	The next morning, the Land Rover had a flat so we had to walk back to the airstrip	One of the polers from Shoebill Island Camp
Guide posing with Land Rover	...he's a poser...	Anna hiking across the marshy ground towards the airstrip	Until a few weeks earlier, the airstrip was unusable because it was wet like this
Back at Chimbwi Airstrip for the flight to Shiwa Ngandu