Better than the Pony Swim in Chincoteague!

I always wanted to see the ponies swim in Chincoteague Virginia, but never made it for the annual event.  However, I think we may have topped it by watching the elephants swim the Chobe River.  I would put it down in the most amazing category, however Charlie, who looks like a true safari guy in this photo below is not too impressed if you listen to his comments in the video that follows.

We boarded our boat after reading these signs...

The elephants were heading to Sedudu Island, which is an island in the middle of the Chobe River.  I would call it the island of Doctor Doolittle's dreams.  The variety of incredible animals and birds that we saw as we did a lazy loop around it in our pontoon boat was everything you would ever want to see in a safari!

The elephants get there and graze, we watched them shake the grass before they ate it to wash off the sand, etc.

Here's the hippo just hanging out eating, I can't imagine if we saw one charge, there is crazy you tube video of one charging.  Here is the link:Hippo charge on Chobe

We also saw a water buffalo completely covered in mud, he shook himself off but I didn't catch it on video...

Here is a clean one, with a bird on his back.

A giant group of hippos just lying together...

One of the larger crocs we saw.

Awesome Africa!!

Elephants drinking..

Great video of the elephants playing.

A floating bar on the Namibian side where you can have a drink and watch animals on the island.

We headed back to the lodge, the most incredible two hour game drive ever, I'm not sure my photos and words do it justice.  So amazing that there are places like this in the world!

As the kids will tell you a song I am a big fan of is that Nelly Furtado song called "Forca" and the lyric that best describes the whole experience is, "It is the passion flowing right on through your veins,

  Then it's the feeling that you're oh so glad you came"...

Our family can say exactly that, we are so glad we came!