For those of you who have been following, I have been working at CCF since May 2017. Unfortunately, this job was not working out for me as I want to be involved in research and science, which is not happening at CCF...

So, I resigned from my position and will be leaving Namibia mid December heading to Botswana for a little while. I'll be resting a bit, working a lot and looking for another job in the region!

Stay tuned for some upcoming posts from the Delta and for updates!

No need to present this park again. Just beware of baboons if you pay it a visit!!

And be sure to take the hike up early morning to watts the sunrise over the horizon!

From sunset in camp...

...To sunrise from the top

Meve's starling showing off

White-browed Scrub Robin

Mangetti is a rather new national park in Namibia, proclaimed in 2014. Very few people know of this park which makes it very (very!) quite. We spent 2 nights there, camping at the entrance gate since they have no campsites available inside the park. We were on our our in the Park for 3 days!

The park is densely wooded which limits animal sighings but has several waterholes to spend the day waiting for the animals to come quench their thirst...

Bennett's woodpecker at then entrance of its nest.

Blue wildebeest having a drink.

We spent a couple of nights camping at the Mahango Safari Lodge just on the bank of the river. We really enjoyed our stay and watched hippos and Cape clawless otters and a lot of carmine bee-eaters nesting!

Buffalo core are

Stormy skies over the river

Water thick-knee on the banks

Bushbucks

Okanvango sunset (HDR)

We were also in the area at the moment of a serious anthrax outbreak. There were hundred of hippos carcasses floating in the river. A couple of days later, the are was closed off and the government had these carcasses removed and burnt.

View from camp (Mahango Safari Lodge)

Southern red bishop in the reeds

Blue dragonfly

Flicka and the cobra

Rinkhal