We had a good old laugh on the way back as the beaters were driving the safari vehicle back ahead and every time we caught them up we had to stop for a beer. We also stood and admired the fabulous huge big sky above which is one of the things that is magical about Africa - so much bigger, clearer and full of stars than in the UK.

Well we had about 30kms to go along the cut line when the safari vehicle stopped and waited for us - they thought they were running out of fuel. Try as you like Martin was keen to show off some more of his gadgets, but to no avail as our car has an anti theft device on it so no fuel was able to be pumped over. Decision made to carry on and see how far it got.

Gauge probably faulty as we made it all the way to the main road and then onto Clints farm as well. A good day was had by all - thanks to all the Maun crowd who made it happen.

Next day was another early morning and Clint had a surprise for us - he wanted to do an exploratory to Chief's Island in his boat to spend the night at the campsite at the bottom tip - did we want to be guinea pigs ... you bet!!!

We drove to the buffalo fence and put in (James drove the vehicle and trailer home) whilst we took off up the Delta. Motor boats are much better than mokorro's (only my opinion of course), you get much further into the Delta, see more wildlife and don't have to worry as much about the wildlife encounters. What a fabulous trip up - loads of elephants, birdlife awesome of course. It took about 3-3.5 hours to get to Chief's Island, we did stop on the way and have lunch which was cool.

The camp had a fabulous big lagoon in front with loads of hippos around (we could only hear them at this stage), elephants and birds. We set up camp and then went to look around the other side of the island at the other campsites. We then floated around our lagoon for sunset which was awesome.

We had a great fire, only incident being two suicidal mice.... they must have been living in one of the pieces of old wood we had collected, but they were very reluctant to leave the fire - we found out it was due to the large amount of termites also living in the wood who were all desperately trying to escape being burnt along with their homes. The 2 (by the end of the evening) very fat mice munching them all as they appeared!!! Quite funny as these mice were so tiny and I was very scared that someone was going to stand on them - Clint even scared them away into the bush twice only to have them appear back about 10-15 minutes later.

What a fabulous night we had and then it was the return journey the next morning with another load of elephant, hippos and birdlife to be seen. When we got back to the buffalo fence there was a hippo right there where the village collect water, wash clothes and themselves - very interesting. Clint then took James & Morgan (Clint's workers) on a little ride in the boat up the Delta so that they know what it is like - they loved it.

We got back to the farm and left for Xakanaxa almost straight away. I will try and finish the update tomorrow.

Love to all xxx