5 Oct
Elephant bull at sunset
A lone elephant bull. A beautiful African sunset. It’s the end of another day of wildlife sightings in the Okavango.
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5 Oct
Ready to go
We have custom-built boxes into the front of the vehicle to safely house all the equipment that we will be using. This environment is not kind to delicate electronic gear so it all needs to packed very carefully while at the same time being easy to access and use.
5 Oct
Rigging the vehicle
We use highly modified vehicles to be able to work productively and efficiently out here. Certain mechanical modifications are required to cope with the constant beating the vehicles take and to make them operationally efficient.
5 Oct
Replacing diff
Brad working on replacing the back diff on his truck. Driving through water constantly plays havoc with bearings and gears.
5 Oct
Vehicle maintenance
As the nearest town, Maun, is 4 hours away, all repairs and maintenance to vehicles needs to be done by ourselves in camp. We work in a harsh environment and the film vehicles take a battering. Constant maintenance is mandatory, but we always need to do running repairs of some sort or another.
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