Chobe part 1

So with going to Africa....hard not to go on safari of some sort. Since this trip was not planned by us we got spoiled by going to an incredible place, with incredible amount of animal. It took more travel time to get there, but sooo worth it. This is Chobe.

We got there expecting that we would be able to drive ourselves down to the resort through a bit of the park. Well we got to the park entrance and the person at the gate informed us that we were not to enter without 4x4. We had a Toyota Hiece 10 passenger van. Not going to happen. lol turns out that if it didn't rain at all we probably could have made it, but it rained a bit, plus pretty sure we would have gotten lost trying to find it in the maze of roads there.

We got them to pick us up at the gate.

Jer and I in the safari open truck....soo fun. This pretty pretty guy is a bush buck. Love the stripes. We think that they took a "scenic" route to the resort to see if we would see any animals. This park is known for it's elephants. We were expecting to see quite a few, but the first animals we saw were these beauties.

We saw five of them I think. There were two smaller ones...

The older they are the darker their spots are.

Pretty sure this was the oldest one that we saw....sooo awesome.

The resort was beautiful. The pool.

The grounds.

When we got there we were supposed to have lunch and then go on a boat cruise. Well they were starting to direct us to the river bank, so we thought oh we are going to just get a snack cause we are late....nope we ate lunch on the river bank over looking the gorgeous view. Awesome food too.

Hehehe another christmas tree. This one was my favorite. The most unique.

Our room....no double bed again, but we were used to it already....no big deal.

After we got our stuff in our room we hopped on our river cruise. This is a king fisher bird. My father in law saw a couple of birds and after that our guide pointed out a lot of birds...some were really cool.

This is a fish eagle. This is the official bird of Zambia and possibly some other African countries.

They are sooo pretty. They mate for life. If their partner dies they never mate again. WOW talk about devotion.

Crocodile in the wild....it was huge.

Oh the sky. I have sooo many pictures of the sky.....it was always changing and I just imagined it being the canvas that God gets really creative on...it was incredible.

Yup that is the rail of the boat....the guide ramped us right up to him.... kind of freaky.

A variety of birds on a old stump.... kind of cliche when you think of African wildlife pictures...but I took it and was right there.

This is an elephant mud hole....they make these huge holes on the shore to coat themselves in mud...this one was a medium size one....they can get huge.

Oh the sky.

Sunset. God and his creative colours.

Part 2 to come.