The drivers, at that time from London from Amsterdam, opened an office in Johannesburg and ran trips with South African passengers paying for excursions to the Okavango and returning via Bulawayo, where the truck was loaded up with weapons.
The African Scops Owl's primary habitat is woodland, especially Mopane and Okavango; it also inhabits a wide range of mixed bushveld.
It is located along the Okavango river, close to the Okavango Delta panhandle, and has a local airstrip and tarred road.
In the Delta, because of the clean waters of the Okavango, there is almost no mud and the river’s load consists almost entirely of sand.
He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student.
South of the divide some rivers flow into the Zambezi River system and thence to the Indian Ocean, others to the Okavango River (as the Cubango River is called along the border with Namibia and in Botswana) and thence to Lake Ngami and the Okavango Swamp in Botswana.
Moremi Game Reserve, a National Park in Botswana on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta
Of these Okavango is the largest and best-known, being mostly within the Moremi Game Reserve, having spectacular wildlife and a well-developed safari industry based in the town of Maun.