Since my last notes here on the 15th April (feels like yesterday) the river in flood is still my favourite obession. The sunsets over the water are outrageous at this time of year... it really does one's soul good to occasionally drop in at one of the riverside lodges for a chilled sundowner on the way home from work..
Note my favourite semi submerged palm tree featuring here again.
Boat-drive-by shot of the same palm tree from river level, looking up at the deck which is perfect for those sundowners!
Observe the Pole Pole Beer Gardens, below. A little bar that sits on the Namibian shore
Right now it's under water, which seems to be an annual liability of its location. It will be back to business as usual when the water drops! Crossing the river from the Botswana side to buy a beer does make you technically an illegal immigrant, of course!
Here we took a boat drive right around the back of the Pole Pole Beer Gardens -normally dry land here.
The astonishing thing is that this huge mass of water is flowing - fast! This very water will thunder over the incredible Victoria Falls, not far from here, since the Chobe forms part of the Zambezi river system.
Here the river rushes past the golf course... wildlife visitors can be hazardous on this course!!
One whole year ago, (feels like last month), we were holidaying in the Northern Hemisphere, saying hello to my parents, and attending Jessie and James'wedding in th UK - here is a year old photo of a totally different watery vista - my mum and me looking out towards Corbiere lighthouse in Jersey.
Fast forward 12 months: this place, the surroundings and seasons are reassuringly familiar. So much feels the same, yet much is different. Life here is as full as ever and there is potentially so much to write about, and so many images that I sometimes get overwhelmed with the overload. If I wanted to record it all here, I would have to do a blogpost everyday, or else my irregular monthly offerings would have to become 100-photo posts, and I would risk boring you all out there to death!
In case I'm in danger of doing that right now, I'm going to sign out, and wish everybody a wonderful weekend, wherever you may be! I'll be drinking a glass of wine on a deck overlooking a stunning watery sunset, in just about ten minutes' time...
