Tuesday 16 June 2009


Hopefully the baby leopard cub! (2 months old)

Hard to see what the photos are I think the battery is getting a little on the flat side and think that I may have to plug into the mains for awhile.

Well we had a brilliant time at Lebala Camp, the last night there we had an amazing rain storm, lightning, thunder and unbelieveble wind quite spectacular! In the morning it was still raining extremely hard so no one went for game drives, we were meant to be flying out and just as we were saying our goodbyes a hail storm.. yes you heard right hail storm hit camp! Well our guide was saying look snow snow, we laughed and said no its just hail. It was actually big hail as well about the size of my thumbnail.

Anyway the plane landed at Lagoon Camp instead and waited for the storm to pass over. Then he came back to pick us up. We got to the runway and it was not flooded, but in places was very close. The pilot said the runway was slippery and he wouldn't taxi with us in the plane, so the other 2 passengers had to get out and get a ride with us to the other end of the runway. We all then jumped into the plane and it wouldn't start. He tried about 6 times and was shaking his head as he needed to take off soon as another storm was about to hit.

It finally turned over and we were off. I have to say that it was the scariest flight I have had and after finally lining up in Maun and sort of landing sideways I was very pleased to have 2 feet on the ground. The pilot was also very pleased and overjoyed that he didn't have to fly again that day!

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