While the Okavango Delta in Botswana has being steadily filling up these past few weeks, the arrival of the second "spike" of new 2004 flood waters (caused by the rains that fall in Angola in Jan / Feb/ March) has not materialised as yet. This been great for vacationtechnician safari camp clients in the north of the Okavango and has given a reprieve; while the early flood waters have had a chance to spread out and disperse. The water levels at Duba Camp for instance have dropped by about 10cm these past weeks - but has just started rising fractionally again these past few days.
It appears as though the biggest effects of the first and early flood waters have been more felt in the west of the Delta and large areas around Mombo Camp are still largely dry. The main flood from that first and early pulse is now just past the "Buffalo fence" just outside of Maun and should be reaching Maun shortly. Some of the flood waters in the East of the Delta have already gone way down the Gomoti River and the floodplains are starting to fill up there - although Chitabe is still dry except for those lagoons that always carry water.
In the Linyanti, the Zibadianja Lagoon is reasonably full from the localised rainfall - but not from the flood waters from Angola. We are still waiting for the flood waters to get to the Linyanti area. The waters have pushed about 300 meters down the Savuti Channel but has stopped flowing and it has receded a bit..... till the arrival of the floods.
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Posted by vacationtechnician at May 21, 2004 03:34 PM | TrackBack