Chobe is legendary for its elephant populations, and in particular when they concentrate along the river during the dry season when the vast interior of the northern Botswana wilderness is dry. During my years of guiding I have witnessed some incredible sights.
It is one of those perfect evenings, coming after a scorching day. The sun has set and the heat has succumbed a little to the African evening. A rumour of a breeze plays across the mind and the light is slowly dissipating as the senses adjust to the changes.
It has been a while since the fish eagles shouted their last words of pride and the guineafowl 's pitched piping has faded away into the distance. The wilderness is in quiet time, there is no sound save for the noise in my own head. The silhouette of an elephant ambles across the fading skyline and then the distant whoop of a hyena carries into the soul.
Mombo is situated at the top end of Chief's Island, that large spit of land running up the near-center of the delta. Mombo is near the north...