South-East Botswana, April 2016 - Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

This is our 3rd or 4th visit to Khama. We always like the campsites here and you're pretty well guaranteed to see rhino - we saw 15 in one morning. This Park is fenced and much smaller than the other Parks in Botswana so they're able to keep a close eye on their rhino population - so far they've not lost any to poachers. The tracks in the Park are sandy but we managed fine in high 4 wheel drive.

We always see plenty of birds and tree squirrels around the campsites.

Grey go-away birds, a crested francolin and a tree squirrel.

One of a group of southern pied babblers.

Green wood-hoopoe.

Burchell's starling - lovely colours in the sunlight.

Serwe Pan.

The story behind the above photo:

1: Seven rhino heading towards the waterhole.

3: The loner makes his way around the Pan.

2: Six of them wait while one approaches the waterhole.

4: The others come down to drink.

We did see other animals aaround the Park. Impala and zebra at Molema Pan.

Sprinbok.

Red hartebeast.

Giraffe.

Baby rhino with mum. This pair were a long way away and the youngster was often hidden by mum but I did eventually get a reasonable shot.

Marakele National Park.

Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

Tuli Block. Molema Bush Camp and Limpopo RIver Lodge.

Lovely to see some real 'bush TV'.

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