Friday, 11 October 2013

The next day

The day after we encountered the dead elephant we took the kids out on the small boat that worked. The plan was to ferry the boys down the river in groups to the same place that we went the day before so that they could fish all morning. This was the first time that i had been onto the river, and driving this boat down the Okavango was just incredible. Matt and I took it in turns to drive the boat back to get more kids. On the third trip back Matt returned with a grin on his face. He said 'I've just seen a massive crocodile! Its just the other side of those reeds.' I immediately got on the boat and went back to the school to get more kids. Just as we got to the other side of the reeds sure enough there was an absolutely huge crocodile just chilling in the middle of the river. It was at least 3 meters in length. We just steered the boat round it and hoped we didn't run out of petrol. That was a very enjoyable morning, even though it was extremely stressful getting all the reluctant boys back onto the boat at the end. This was a more successful day fish wise, several boys caught large fish, even though they had the most primitive of rods.

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