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Elephant at Night

The full moon rose over the Okavango Delta as I lay in bed listening to the elephant wade through the water. The sloshing was a fresh sound, just like a person walking through the shallows only louder. And it grew even louder, so I got up to see if the elephant was really headed to [...]

¶ Posted 28 August 2009 † mGlier § All Botswana Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: African Wildlife Drawing, Botswana, Elephant drawing, Elephant foraging, Elephant impression, Elephant in the bedroom, elephants, Full moon, gesture drawing, Gouache drawing, Ilala Palm, Movement, Okavango Delta

Okavango

The Okavango Delta is formed by a river that has nowhere to go. The water that forms the Delta once flowed to the sea, but a fault in the earth’s crust is raising the floor of the Kalahari, blocking its path. As a result, the frustrated river has lost its snaky shape and has become [...]

¶ Posted 25 August 2009 † mGlier § All Botswana Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: Aerial photograph, Africa, African ecosystem, African Fish Eagles, African landscape, African Wildlife Drawing, Botswana, Crane, Ecosystem, elephants, Field sketch, Field studies, Green Pigeons, Hippopotamus, Ilala Palm, Kalahari, Mirrored world, Mokoro landscape, Moremi Game Preserve, national park, Okavango Delta, Okavango delta adventure, Pencil drawing, Primal landscape, Red lechwe, Saddle-billed stork, Saddle-billed Storks, Savannah, seas of grass, Skull, swamp, Sycamore Fig, sycamore figs, Vervet monkey, visual traditions, wart hog, water lilies, Water lily, Waterbug, Wetlands