Victoria Falls

Our tour of the falls was pretty good. At his time of the year the water flow is very high over the falls. You would think that is a good thing, but it can be too much of a good thing. Throughout most of the fall's width the mist makes viewing and photographing difficult. The falls creates it's own weather with a permanent cloud over it. The mist comes down as a constant rain.  For the tour we were given ponchos, they were almost totally useless. When done with the tour my clothes underneath were completely soaked and my camera was nonfunctional.  Fortunately both eventually dried out.

Later in the day we took a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River. Unfortunately my camera had not yet healed itself. It was a nice evening and we saw some elephants and hippos along the way. The hippo even obliged  by coming up and opening its jaws to full width. It even held that pose for about five seconds. But, of course, I didn't have my camera.

The next day it was back on the plane and back to Johannesburg. The day after tomorrow we will be off to Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania and another safari.