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| African Golden Weaver |
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| Magpie Shrike |
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| Lunch stop |
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| Brown Snake Eagle |
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| Roan Antelope |
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| Red Hartebeest |
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| Surviving Hippo |
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| Red Lechwe |
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| Boabab |
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| BIRD OF THE DAY! Southern Carmine Bee-eater |
Monday, 30 October 2017
25 October - Hakusembe to Xaro Lodge [Botswana]
24 October - Makuti Lodge to Hakusembe [near Rundu]
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| Vince of the Namib |
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| BIRD OF THE DAY! - Golden tailed Woodpecker |
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| Golden tailed Woodpecker |
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| Hartlaub's Babbler |
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| Hartlaub's Babbler |
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| African Paradise Flycatcher` |
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| Kurrichane Thrush |
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| Southern Black Flycatcher |
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| Black Drongo |
23 October - Halali to Makuti
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| White browed Robin |
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| Red headed Weaver |
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| Squirrel |
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| African Grey Hornbill |
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| European or Common Bee-eater within an acacia |
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| Common Bee-eater |
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| Red Hartebeest |
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| Etosha Pan |
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| The group in the Pan! |
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| Chinese explorer within the Pan |
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| The group looking at and talking about a whole lot of nothing |
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| Romantic shot of Steenbuck pair |
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| Red breasted Swallow |
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| BIRD OF THE DAY! - Violet eared Waxbill - female |
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| BIRD OF THE DAY! - Violet eared Waxbill - male [V. Lee] |
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| Damaraland or Common Red billed Hornbill? |
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| Scaly Finch or Weaver |
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| Wharthog |
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| Marico Flycatcher |
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| Black faced Babbler |
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| Scrum of Banded Mongoose |
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| Banded Mongoose |
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| Banded Mongoose |
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| Crested Francolin |
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| Drinking Giraffe |
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| close up of Black faced Impala |
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| male Ostrich with chicks |
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| a trifecta of chicks |
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| A good picture of the bird of the day - Violet Eared Waxbill [M. Mathieson] |
22 October - to Halali [in Etosha National Park]
 
Today our safari took us east, game driving as we went, to Halali, another camp in Etosha. Halali has restaurants and reasonable little cottages, swimming pool and, importantly a nearby waterhole, floodlit for excellent night time viewing.
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| Today's gorgeous male lion |
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| King of the Plain |
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| Giraffes ensuring that their heads and necks are not obscuring the skyline |
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| Giraffe |
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| Red capped Lark |
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| Chat Flycatcher |
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| Adult non breeding Kittlitz's Plover |
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| African Cuckoo |
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| Southern Yellow billed Hornbill |
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| White Helmitshrike |
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| Bare cheeked Babbler at Halali |
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| Swainson's Francolin [or Spurfowl] |
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| Halali Waterhole - floodlit at night with eight rhinos in attendance |
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