Vacation pictures from Harold Erickson

Several trips for fishing or touring from 1990. I don't take many pictures myself, but got some nice ones from friends on the trip.

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And let's not forget the great peacock bass, caught on the Rio Negro (off the Amazon) March 1997.

And now for the great Safari, 1998. Carol and Peter Girardin and Harold spent two weeks in Botswana

Photos mostly by Peter, some by Carol.

We spent the first night in Johannesberg, then flew to Maun, Botswana. A night in a motel/camp and then we took off in the landrovers to the Ngai Pan, the Magdgaligali park in the northern part of the Kalahari desert. The first day we saw these spectacular Baobab trees (we saw a few more at different places. After 10 days of camping and game drives (riding in a landrover at slow speed looking for animals) we finished up at a resort hotel at Victoria Falls. See Carol's panorama views of Baobab trees and Vic Falls.

Of course we saw lions, but even rarer were the wild dogs. A yellow billed stork is mixed in this page of photos. The pictures of the leapord are missing, presumed stolen by National Geographic.

Birds, incredible birds. Some were so common we had to force Peter to take pictures. Of course he needed no encouragement to photograph the eagles. And check out the Kori Bustard, the world's largest bird that can fly (what's larger? an ostrich of course, we don't have any pictures of them). And a very nice goose. Perhaps most impressive impressive of all were the marabou storks mating.

And the best animals of all, Peter Carol and Harold at Vic Falls, and Carol and Harold in a restaurant.