Close encounters

Pre booked, packaged deal tourism is underated. I've just spent the last week on the most amazing holiday with my fam at Victoria Falls and Safaring through Botswana. Botswana was incredible, with a population of around 1 million and 70% of its land mass covered by the Kalahari Desert much of its land is uninhabited and untamed, much as it has been for a very very long time.   

I've never really been particularly keen on animals, and the concept of a Safari never really did it for me. But in this context I ate my preconceptions. No fences, no tar roades, not a hint of domestication. Hippos, lions and crocs eyeing us with disdain as we rumbled past in our open air truck gawking and snapping at what we were once apart of.

Chemical communication between trees and trees that live off the life of another, growing upon the other's bark and then strangling the life out of it with its roots until the first tree is dead and the strangler stands in its stead. Dung beatles that attract their mates by rolling up balls of cow shit and birds that mate for life.

I have posted a few photos, and although photography is not really my thing, sometimes it's undeniable that nature, (even if i've only provided pale two dimentional imitations) is far more profound than anything I can conjure up with my mere mortal mind.