Okavango Dreaming!  Trip Start Dec 14, 2007 Trip End Jun 01,
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tons of heaving, seething aggressive muscle and bone pops its
head up, out of the water seven metres away, and gives you the
evil, beady eye - especially evil when you are sitting in a
dugout-style canoe in the middle of an uninhabited swamp the
size of the Netherlands, your backside below the waterline
delicately balancing body and soul.  Don't fret, panic, flap,
keep a lid on that millisecond of 'squeaky-bum', maintain course
and continue sublimely past the frothy, snorting behemoth.  A
60-year old swamper stands at the rear of the mokoro (canoe), 4m
pole in hand, thrusting forward, slowly, gently, surely, his
eyes glued to the hippopotamus. His 70-year-old brother stands
on the prow, poling, pushing too, in tandem, making no erratic
motions, only leaning forward, dipping the v-end of his long
pole into the water, lending h