Snapshots from the days of Maun

Today is a nice an easy day almost a long weekend all i had to do was come to the airport for an afternoon standby as i have said before 'flying the couch'.

Life is managing to hold an unusual calm here at the moment we havn't had large power black outs for a while, I have had continous running water for almost two weeks and my run down old rental car is running ok(touch wood).

With this idle time I have decided to throw up some picutres and a couple of interesting articles from back in the old days(3 years ago) when I flew clapped out Cessnas in Maun Botswana.

The Articles are only two of the gems that Ngami Times(local paper in Maun) turn out on a regular basis. Only in maun would you come accross donkey rapists! I guess one would have to have had a fair few Windhoek lagers.....plus some to find a donkey attractive.

Or the witch doctor from Zanzibar...who needs a lawyer when your local witch can cure your caught cases for 30 Pula(if i'm correct its only $6USD)

The other pictures down the righthand side:

Flying formation from Maun up the Okavango Delta to Shakawe near the border with Namibia

A quick flight around Victoria falls in the hope i may get a tip from my passengers whilst flying from Kasane to Livingston in Zambia.

Temperature in the C206 one afternoon 50 degrees celcius....the conditions us pilots put ourselves through along the road to acheive the ultimate goal of a air conditioned cockpit, with a sheepskinned covered seat at 30000 feet.

High over the Makgadikgadi salt pan in a Cessna 210. Apparently this pan was once the worlds largest inland ocean. I also believe that the waters from the Okavango river use to flow into the makgadikgadi pan, but nowadays the water spreads out in the Delta and vanishs into the sands of the Kalahari.

A late afternoon scenic flight down the Gomoti river with another Cessna 210 off my wingtip.....such a hard life.

I'm not going to go into any detail of the after hours debauchery that Maun pilots were famous for in their irresponsible ways.

My 21st birthday out at a bar/camp 15 minutes drive out of maun called Sitatunga was bad enough.

Anyway my significant other has just come off 7 nights straight at the hospital, so I'm off home now to drink wine and cook meat over hot coals with her.........I'm not flying until 1500 tomorrow if anybody is wondering.

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