This posting is just another animal posting – because I never get tired of seeing the animals, which is why we went to southern Africa in the first place. We really wanted to visit the Okavango and in large part it was to see the hippos and crocodiles and birds that are in and around the water, versus other areas of southern Africa. So this post will highlight more of those animals.

I estimate that we saw about 100 crocodiles on this trip and almost all of them were in the Okavango. We saw them frequently in both the waterways and on land and several times in groups of double digit numbers. They moved about quite a bit, usually on our approach to them. We watched them crawl about, swim around, and eat the elephant carcass. One night, as we were having a sundowner, they were rolling in the water over and over and over again which was very loud and very entertaining. We weren’t sure why they were doing it but it was highly entertaining. I really like this shot of the crocs and the vultures.

I estimate that we saw about 115 hippos and the majority of those were in the Okavango. I could do several posts with just hippo photos as we saw them in lots of entertaining circumstances. We got quite close to the hippos and they always seemed a bit wary of us but we were never intrusive enough that they moved in our direction. That would be a bad thing.

Most, if not all, of these photos are Cory’s photos and it’s hard not to keep posting them. We frequently saw crocodiles in groups and you can see three in this photo on the near bank. I’ve seen crocodiles in many other places on our other trips but I don’t think I’ve ever been quite so entertained by them as in the Okavango.

I just put this zebra photo in to make sure that everyone knows that all the other animals are also located in the Okavango. We saw giraffes, elephants, lions, zebra, and many other large animals every day in the Okavango.

This photo was near sundown. My memory is that we had stopped for a “sundowner” cocktail near a river. These hippos seemed curious about us and who knows, they might have liked to join us.