• Kalizo

We were a team of eight photographers including our hosts. We spent fours days at Kalizo lodge. The accommodation is basic and the food simple, but very tasty and well prepared with breakfast a daily highlight.

The trip is made special however by the (annual) visiting colony of breeding southern carmine bee-eaters. Thousands of these colourful birds congregate and make their nests in the soft riverine sand on the banks of the mighty Zambezi in this part of the (in)famous Caprivi strip about 20km east of Katima Mulilo.

We all try and capture the birds in action, in flight and hopefully in focus. This is not an easy task and it takes patience and some luck to “get it”. We do that every morning and in the afternoons we go an try for African skimmers and other water birds. We also shoot fish eagle action shots by strategically “dropping” some artificially  inflated fish with mixed results (for me at least). Sue gets some much better shots, but then she has always had the fastest finger in the family.

Altogether one to knock off your bucket list even if you are not an avid birder.

Sue’s better effort