mozambique meanders

Spiders and snakes, tortoises, scorpions hunting under the lights, preying mantises

that defy the imagination, big fluttery moths, and small scratchy scurrying beetles.  Al the small folks are out now released by the flush of first proper rains.  Driving through the mopane forests we pass through zones of screaming cicadas. Golden brown impalas  flit across the track followed closely by their newborn fawns – tiny scraps of life - and disappear just as quickly behind the curtain of dayglo green leaves.  Summer is here in all her lush green glory.

We have been traveling, between Botswana and Mozambique, in the race to be everywhere at once before the big rains close down the more remote areas for the season. Our last trip was into the LimpopoTransfrontier Park in mozambique where the Shingwedzi River crosses in from Kruger Park, South Africa. It is wild wild country with horizons so wide you can see the curve of the earth for sure!

a fork in the road

summer heat hammers down on a quiet village

sleigh ride mozambique style

a river bed that waits for the rain

elephants look so tiny from up here

patterns on a fever tree

early travellers thought this was where malaria came from

our camp fire on the edge of the river