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CHOBE

Being at Chobe under Canvas allows guests the opportunity to be some of the first to be in the park and having sightings all to themselves before the wave to game drive vehicles come in from Kasane for their day trips. This was one of those sightings where a family of elephants came to the water’s edge, one adult in front of the babies and...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Jacques van Eck, Date: 3 August 2012

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CHOBE'S LIONS ON MORNING GAME DRIVE

The early game drives in Chobe are my favourite. The crisp cold air, the warm water bottle nestled on your lap and the tracks on the roads betraying the animal’s whereabouts from the previous night. Meier, our guide on this particular trip came to the breakfast table and inquired as to whether we'd heard the lions that had roared early that...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Jacques van Eck, Date: 2 August 2012

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MYSTERIOUS DEATHS IN CHOBE

It’s the beginning of winter and Chobe is experiencing something that we never have seen before, as almost 4 elephants and 1 buffalo have died along the water. All these dead elephants are teenagers, to my surprise, and seemed to just have collapsed after having a drink. The cause is still unknown as this is so recent, and as usual vultures,...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 30 May 2012

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SAFETY BY NUMBERS

A group of banded mongoose were seen foraging on the road side along Mokingtus in the morning of May 29th at around 7 am. We enjoyed watching these social animals for about 15 to 30 minutes. Eventually a black backed jackal came around the corner as the mongoose were having babies. The jackals' plan was to steal one baby. Then 1 mongoose called and the...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 29 May 2012

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BUFFALO INDICATOR

One afternoon after a long search for buffalos, we were driving on Mokwetus route 14 cutline and saw a dung beetle which over took the Jeep driving at 30km/h and stood in front of us. Flying in our direction, we followed him for about 2 minutes and eventually we came out of a large herd of buffalos. There must have been hundreds of them! The drive ended...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 3 May 2012

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NOT A GOOD DAY

A martial eagle was seen on a tree which seemed to be a hiding spot for a group of banded mongoose who were foraging unaware of this large bird of prey. It came to time when the mongoose were crossing the elephant path and at a very high speed the big bird came out like a shot. The alpha male mongoose was a responsible old man. One alarm from him and...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 24 April 2012

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YOUNG BULL IMPALAS TRYING HARD TO IMPRESS

End of April 2012 came with different, but amazing sightings. It’s the rutting season for impala with the bulls having a hard time as the strong “new” guys live a better life than the weak ones. Two of the weaker males were on each side of a small dead bush sharpening their horns for the next try. A beautiful lilac breasted roller was...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 22 April 2012

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RETURNING SABLE

A group of sable antelopes of about 30 came across us on the Kalowa stretch crossing over to the river. It looks like their season of hiding in the woodlands is coming to an end with waterpans shriveling to nothing they can depend on. This beautiful antelope with facial markings like the oryx was what everyone was dying to see for the past raining season....

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Baleofi Disho, Date: 18 April 2012

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BREEDING SIGHT

Written by Disho Baleofi: We saw a flock of immature Africa Fish Eagle of about 38 all along the Chobe River bank by Kabulabula.

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Sahara Krencker, Date: 5 April 2012

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NO FISH THIS TIME AROUND

Written by Meier Morija: Whether driving or cruising on a boat along the Chobe River, herons are is a commom sighting, especially the grey heron. On this day around 8am we were lucky enough to witness a grea heron eating a red billed oxpecker. We were unlucky not to see how it caught it as we only arrived when it was trying to swallow it. The...

Posted: Chobe Under Canvas by Sahara Krencker, Date: 30 March 2012

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