The next morning we drove to a seal colony along the coast. I was expecting a couple of seals but this colony was 80,000 seals big so there were thousands of them chilling out on the beach which made it smell pretty suspect but it was amazing to see them all.

It's the rainy season and it was ridiculously wet which meant the road became a bit of a river so we had to go to Sokomund early - this is the river we finally decided we couldn't get across... at which point we cracked open the ciders and readied ourselves for another monster drive to get to the next place!

We were meant to stay up in this mountain range for the night, see some cave paintings and sleep out under the stars which are incredible because its in the middle of nowhere but unfortunately the weather had other plans...

At the campsite was a watering hole where you could go and sit and wait for animals at night. I managed about 20mins and I think I saw 1 owl but at least I got to try out my night mode on the camera!

Bit late in the blog for this but this is what we're travelling in - Songwe the truck! We went to see the salt flats and got absolutely stuck, cue manly pushing and digging and trying to lever us out but in the end we had to call up a tractor to come get us out... not too much of a problem as the cooler was full of cider so we were fine - when the guy came to pick us up he even said to our driver 'I don't get it they're stuck but they're all singing?!'

An Oryx - hadn't seen this guy before pretty prevelant in Chobe and as it turns out a very tasty game meat, only second to Springbock which was awesome. Still not sure I like they're version of dried meat which is Biltong but hey at least I'm trying them all..

We went on a game drive for 4 hours but not much was around although we did find this lion prowling around.

An arty shot of the road which I think looks good... shame I didn't realise a bit earlier that a bitumen road in the middle of the day will be ridiculously hot if you lie down to take this picture! I sat with a bottle of frozen water on my stomach for about an hour afterwards and thankfully it felt ok after that.

When we got to the campsite we went on a bushwalk to se how bushmen live and use the bush to survive which was really interesting, they told us all about the different roots and plants and how they carry water round in an ostrich egg as its very strong.

We spent the hour or so chilling out in the quarry and jumping off the floating platform - here's one of my better forward flips.

At the campsite there was a chance to go swimming at a quarry which sounded interesting so we all tooka ride on the back of a 4x4 to get there - noone expected it to be quite as nice as this!

At the next campsite we had the chance to go to a crocodile farm which was interesting - our guide was one of the scariest person I've met he had one arma nd at one point on the walk to the farm he said he could ' smell a big snake in the bushes just off to the right'!

Not manay animals around but you did have to watch out for aardvark holes! I only managed to fall down one...

An early morning bush walk the next morning - here's me looking very awake and fired up for it!

The sunset over the okovango delta... priceless photography by me!

Us in our boats at the okovango delta.

Next we headed to the okovango delta to stay an night on one of the islands there. We were poled out to the island through the reeds and set up camp on the island in the middle of the delta.

On the way back we were lucky enough to catch a whole load of elephants come ot the water for a drink and to cool off.

Our boat round Chobe National Park.

The cruise was for 3 hours and we weren't meant to get off the boat but one of us needed the toillet so we jumped ashore... only for one of the girls to shout and run back to the boat - she'd just seen a crocodile lurking in the bushes! We all jumped back in the boat after that.

The next day we went for a boat safari around Chobe on a little boat so we could get really close to the hippos and the crocodiles - I think we got a bit too close to this guy because he did a sort of fake charge at us at one point!

Me chilling out with the waterhogs aka pumba by the side of the road at one of our shop stops - this was a close as I was willing to get!

The next day we headed to Chobe National Park for a game drive. Unfortunately it's wet season there so all the animals don't have to go to the watering holes so they're really hard to spot... except the hippos which love all the water! There guys were chasing each other around and were suprisingly quick!

We were staying at a place called the waterfront so when we weren't whitewater rafting or on elephant safari we spent the time chilling out at the pool and at the bar which looked over the zambezi. This is the view from the bar the evening after our elephant safari.

The next morning we went for an elephant safari which was fun - elephants are huge! Unfortunately it rained the whole time so we made good use of the ponchos they provided and when it rains the animals all hide so we didn't get to see any apart from maybe a couple of birds but it was still fun to ride an african elephant.

I heard there was a golf course at livingstone so decided to take myself there one morning for a round. At a cost of $2 I also got myself a very able caddy who I'm not entirely convinced had played golf before but we had a fun morning of hunting round the bushes for ball - I only lost 3 in the end which wasn't too bad!

Me and ben practicing our paddling / action poses! We stopped half way down the zambezi to jump off a huge rock which was fun - the zambezi divides zambia and zimbabwe and we were jumping off rocks on the zimbabwe side so I think I can officially say I've been to zimbabwe! Not long after this the latch came off my underwater camera and its now still full of water so no more underwater shots for me but the big camera's still going strong!

So after Malawi we headed to the capital of Zambia, Livingstone to indulge in some extreme whitewater rafting down the Zambezi! Flipped the boat twice and there were crocodiles in the water - rock and roll!

The morning after a couple of people headed to the bridge over the zambezi to do bungi jumping and I went to video it for them - you do the bungi from a bridge over the zambezi which divived zambia and zimbabwe so you don't actually have to cross countries but there is a sign half way across the bridge showing that you have entered zimbabwe. A guy on the bridge sold me some zimbabwe dollars for around 50p (they're no longer in use because of the ridiculous inflation under Mugabe - they use american dollars now) so I'm the proud owner of a $50 billion note!

After Malawi we headed to Zambia and the capital Livingstone the home of Vic Falls. This was our first view of the falls discovered by Dr Livingstone and named after queen victoria who was queen at the time. It's an awesome view which pictures can't really do justice because of all the spray from the falls and how big the falls are but they're pretty incredible.

The next day we were going to get kayaks out again and go round the island but they were all out so we stepped it up a bit and me and ben took charge of a cat! It was going well for the first 10 mins until the wind died and then we spent the next 2 hours trying to get out the the island - it was a struggle but we did finally manage it although I had to swim the last 50 metres!

When we did finally make it out to the island we found some rocks to jump off with the locals. They were going for more ambitious running jumps but I think we held our own!