This Is the Okavango Delta

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=160 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Day One</B></div> <div> <B>We finally got to Maun (adventures in travel!) and were met by the OHS Maun staff. We repacked our bags and got onto the single engine Cessna with Peter and Carol and flew to the dirt airstrip at Xudum. </B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=1 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=479 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>African Safari</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.tsandm.com" TARGET="_parent" TITLE="http://www.tsandm.com"><U><B>Back to TSandM Homepage</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">        <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">    <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Elephant"><U><IMG SRC="4260e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>        <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="African Safari"><U><IMG SRC="4270e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="42858020.png" border=0 width="600" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This Is the Okavango Delta</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0fa12a70.jpg" border=0 width="530" height="423" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> On the flight from Maun, Botswana to the airstrip in a Cessna 206, I took some shots of the delta.  You can see the "islands" and the "rivers" very clearly in addition to how flat the whole area is.  We got there just at the end of the rainy season and a couple of weeks before the floods arrived.  It was very green and the animals were all sleek (Lynne raised an interesting question, are all the prey animals sleek because if they are not, they are dead?)</div> </td> </tr></table></body>