We spent most of today in Chobe National Park (in Botswana). We saw many beautiful birds, which I hope to post some other time – and we bagged a lion (photographically), giving us three of the Big Five (we still need to find a leopard and a rhinoceros).

Connectivity is still very limited, so here are a few big animal photos.

You can’t get any bigger (or taller) than a giraffe. We saw quite a few today, some almost close enough to touch.

The lion was far away from us and was resting; we came back a few hours later, and she was still in the same spot.

Elephants…well, there are too many to count!

Including some babies!

We were on our way to the park exit when our friend David spotted these zebra – the hippo was a bonus.

And then it was back to the ship. There are worse ways to spend a Wednesday!

We had our first boat safari on one of the ship’s tenders this morning. I took almost 300 photos!

Lunch was served as soon as we got back (which was delayed by having to rescue the passengers on one of the tenders after it had engine trouble!).

I intended to get my computer and edit photos in the lounge between the safaris, but there was heavy traffic on the Chobe and it required my attention (thanks, Desi, for not letting me miss the elephants in the room…err, river).