On Friday, our last full day in Botswana, we did a very early-morning game drive and in the afternoon, went into Kasane for awhile to do a bit of shopping. By this time, we found that we would have a little time to do more shopping in Victoria Falls on our way out of Zimbabwe. A few of us tried to book one of the flights over the falls, but found they were all booked up.

A pride of lions gets the scent of breakfast, and the hunt is on. These two are fitted with radio-tracking collars

Target in sight...

Concentrating fully on the prey, oblivious to our presence.

CHARGE!

But no luck this time, so it's back to the barn.

That evening, instead of a drive, we boarded a double-decker boat and cruised along the Chobe River. Once in awhile, we'd pull up along the banks for a close look at some animals, and got fairly close to some vervet monkeys, crocs, a flock of bright green birds called bee eaters, cape buffalo, the usual lineup. The sunset was again spectacular, but this time, we didn't have quite as good a background as we'd had at Moremi, we were cruising past a line of condos and private boats on the Namibia side of the river at the time, and it just wasn't as scenic.

Scenes from the Chobe River cruise: A monitor lizard	A cormorant dries its wings
Hippos	Vervet monkeys
A fish eagle Cape buffalo	A large crocodile Bee-eater birds
As close as you want to get to a croc this size

An impala sports a fashionable radio-tracking collar	Remains of the day: the carcass of a kudu, killed four days earlier.
All-natural lawnmowers: a pair of warthogs help trim the grass on the Mowana golf course. They have to get down on their knees to get their heads this low.	A slender mongoose...no, that's not a comment on its diet, it's what they're called. I wonder, are there fat slender mongooses? Or is it mongeese?
A lion's eyes glow in the pre-dawn darkness Photo by Kathy Lindquist	Fresh leopard tracks...but no leopard The morning commute on the baboon highway

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