Underwater filming at Nxamaseri - 03:58 am
14 Jul 2009
by Andy Crawford
Brad and I are at Nxamaseri for our annual “Underwater Okavango” filming session. Every year we take a month off from whatever we are doing and head for Nxamaseri, in the panhandle of the Delta, in the north-western section of Botswana. June and July is the time when the flood waters from Angola are starting to recede in the north, and the usually muddy brown water in the Okavango is clear in these waterways for a brief time. During this window we dive to get a glimpse of the incredible world of waterlilies and wonder that colour these channels.
As we have been doing it for a few years now the logistics are getting easier and we are finding the setting up and settling in less daunting. We have no diving facilities or infrastructure here at all, so everything we need has to be brought in, down to the last spare O-ring. Nxamaseri Lodge kindly allows us the use of a small wooden house that is some way from the camp. Here we can run generators, compressors, strew dive gear over every available surface and generally do what we like without upsetting the civilized paying guests.
The team this year comprises the usual suspects: Brad, me (Andy Crawford) and Richard Boltar.
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