The First of many - Maun, Botswana

Maun the portal to the " Okavango Delta".

I'll be flying for Moremi Air Service, doing charters, camp transfers and scenic flights. As majority of the delta is only accessible by air in the flood season there is a lot of flying to be done.

When peak season begins, around May there is just flying all day every day.

Weather is similar to Joie's but hotter in summer averaging in the high 30's Celsius.

What is now green all becomes brown and dead in the winter as the rains have ceased. But the rivers flow with life as the rains that have fallen 6 months earlier north in the mountains of Angola begin to filter into the delta and beginning the floods. Trees are swallowed beneath the water and open plains change into islands. With all the water now concentrated in the delta so the animals follow and masses congregate in the delta for the life giving water....