2012 Flood

With the 2012 flood due to peak in a couple of weeks, we cast our minds back to that First Big Flood back in 2010... Ok, so it wasn't really the first big flood but it was the biggest flood since the 70's and therefore the biggest flood we at Letaka Safaris had ever seen. The year 2010 began much...

Just a few days into July and the daily rate of rise on the Thamalakane River continues to increase slowly towards the 2cm per day mark. Towards the third week of June the we saw an increase of over 100% from around 7mm per day to just over 1.5cm per day here at the Letaka Safaris base in Maun. This...

Well rumors still abound about a massive flood on it's way to Maun but all evidence points to a fairly average flood as can be seen in the graph below. The water levels in this graph are measured at Mike Murray-Hudson's place just outside Maun and are currently the only reliable measurements of Maun...

Water discharge at Mohembo After the massive flood levels of 2011 there was much speculation regarding this year’s flood. Many people had predicted that this year’s flood levels would exceed that of last year. In 2011 Moremi Game Reserve received so much water that over 100km of game drive road...