Another camp move this morning, so it was another early reveille, and we were on the road by 6.40 am for a game drive on the way out of Chobe. Bibi stopped and we took a quick jaunt up a rocky outcrop, where San bushmen paintings, on a rock wall, and thought to be around 100,000 years old can  be seen. Bibi recounted how on doing this same walk some years earlier, they had disturbed a lioness with young cubs resting amongst the rocks ( not hoping for a repeat this time.) On our travels, sightings included spur-winged geese, waterbuck, open-billed storks, wattled cranes, and a lovely view of the

colourful bataleur eagle. Against a rich blue sky he provided a number of poses for the photographers amongst us - left side, right side, full on, half-turn etc. when suddenly he spread his wings wide, cormorant-like. He held this position for several seconds, and all of us, including Bibi, were a bit puzzled by this behaviour. (NB: On return to the UK I dropped an e-mail to Roy Dennis, querying the eagle's behaviour. He replied that he had seen it once before in Africa, and referred me to a reference stating that this had been observed in Kruger, and that it was a case of the eagle sunning itself "phoenix-like.")

On route to Moremi we stopped for a short time at Khwai village. Here we were able to observe one of the local women in the process of constructing a house using coke-cans as a substitute for building bricks. Using a local mix of what looked simply like mud, it did evidently provide a sound structure, though I thought it might have been favourable had all the local cans have been aluminium rather than steel, which were already showing signs of rusting.  We stopped briefly at the village for a walk over the "Bridge over the River Khwai," before we resumed our journey. We arrived at Moremi at

3 pm where we found our camp set out. e left for the afternoon game drive at 5pm, and were returning by around 6.45 pm, though our return was delayed by a male lion who had decided that the track we were driving belonged to him. Bibi drove quite close to him, flashing his headlights in the darkness and revving his engine, but the lion made it clear that he alone would choose when and where to peel off, which he did after following him, probably for a couple of hundred yards. Dinner followed at 7.30 pm - beef stroganoff, macaroni and carrots, and tinned fruit with custard. We had our usual session around the bonfire, and the regular chat from Bibi, then bed-time around 10pm.