Back from Africa

We're back in Oak-town.

It was a whirlwind tour with 37-hour travel stints each to get there and back, then a blitz through South Africa (Cape Town and surroundings), Zimbabwe (Victoria Falls), Zambia (Livingstone Island), and finally Botswana (Linyanti and Jao).

Teresa and I are wildlife-lovers, and we stayed in wildlife areas the whole time we were in Botswana, so I have to say that was my favorite. But really just about every part of the whole trip was amazing.

Hopefully I'll have time to write it up more soon and post some other pictures, but until then you'll have to be satisfied with this picture of a wild leopard that we managed to track down (literally, using footprints) on the last day we were in Botswana.

We were approximately 10 meters from this cat, but it was pretty safe because was keeping its eye on a couple of spotted hyena slinking back to their den after what the tracks indicated was a blood-spilling altercation between a lioness and her cub. Oh, and there was a fish eagle (one of the largest eagles around) in the tree in the background. And a herd of Lechwe in the field just behind the tree. And...and...just a ridiculous amount of wildlife, really.

Can't make any of that up :-). We were all just sitting there in awe, taking it in.

I hope I get to go back.