DELVING DEEPER In the Makgadikgadi
My 4×4 came to a grinding halt. I pressed down hard on the gas but nothing happened. All four wheels were now well and truly stuck in gooey black mud. This was on a trip with members of the Botswana Bird Club at the edge of Sowa Pan to view countless bird species enjoying the waters of the recently flooded pan – pink flamingoes, huge white pelicans, avocets, spoonbills, stilts – and thanks to a length of rope and some elbow grease, the Hilux finally came free and it was back to our binos and scopes.
A few years ago, we also assisted Irish ornithologist Dr Graham McCulloch who was carrying out research on
