Day 76 Xakanaka Campsite

Two hour boat safari on the channels and lagoons of the Okavanga delta around Xakanaka. Beautiful scenery with tall reeds towering above us. On the way out we sat inside the boat but on the way back we sat on the roof – much more exciting and a better view!

Rest of morning spent reading and cooking early dinner of Indonesian beef curry to use up the rest of the meat as we have a vet fence to go through tomorrow. Also watching the 10 x SAs on the next campsite who are here doing a promo video for Avis and test driving their vehicles for a website review.

Headed out at 2 pm for afternoon game drive negotiating more tricky Botswana sandy roads.  The roads around Xakanaka are a complete maze and bear no resemblance to the map as they are mostly seasonal tracks.  Ended up at two deep water crossings but opted not to cross as it was a bit late in the day to be getting stuck.  Drove out to dead tree island which has lots of dead trees!

Lots of zebra and waterbuck but Ian was determined to get a photo of a squirrel.