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Intimate Hippos Shot

An Intimate Hippos Shot

Taken at Katavi National Park, Tanzania's third largest national park. It is very remote and less frequently visite...
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An Intimate Hippos Shot

Taken at Katavi National Park, Tanzania's third largest national park. It is very remote and less frequently visited than other Tanzanian national parks. The park is approximately 4,471 square kilometers (1,726 sq mi) in area. The park encompasses the Katuma River and the seasonal Lake Katavi and Lake Chada floodplains.

The number of annual visitors to the park is extremely low, just above 1,500 foreign visitors out of a total 900,000 registered in the whole Tanzania National Parks system during 2012-13.

Wildlife includes large animal herds, particularly of Cape Buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, and elephants, plus along the Katuma river, crocodiles and hippopotami which upon annual dry seasons results in mudholes that can be packed with hundreds of hippos.

The hippo pools of Katavi were on my bucket list for a long time. October 2018 we finally did it on a fleeting 3 night stop over on the way to Mahale. Unfortunately the time you can spend there is dictated by the twice a week flights, unless you drive, that operate on Mondays and Thursdays.

And I can still smell the stench of the tightly packed hippo pools

Nikon D500, 300mm F4 PF & 1.4TCiii @F8, 1-250, ISO 800
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