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A Lioness and Her Cub, Chobe River, Botswana

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A Lioness and Her Cub, Chobe River, Botswana

A lioness and cub drinking from the flooded Chobe river

A Lioness and Her Cub, Chobe River, Botswana

A lioness and cub drinking from the flooded Chobe river

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A lioness and cub drinking from the flooded Chobe river, northern Botswana

Where and When the Photo Was Taken 

Chobe National Park, Botswana, March 28 2010. Taken just before sunset from a small boat on the river. There were hippo's frolicking on the other side of the boat, the sun was going down, a full moon was rising against the indigo sky ... the kind of sensory overload only suffered in Africa.

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  • I have a simple Panasonic Lumix - DMC-FZ7 with 12x zoom, which I really just use to "point and shoot", and now and then all the stars align to give me a moment like this.

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