May pics

Roscoe takes it easy.



On our way to pick up a snakebite victim in the village of Hukuntsi, about 250 miles northwest of Gaborone. Despite the smile, we are flying the plane flat-out as fast as we can!



The medics attending to the victim, a nine year old girl. The snake turned out to be a burrowing adder, apparently quite a rare snake, and is in this shot sitting dead in a plastic bag under one of the seats so that it can be identified by an expert from a local game reserve when we land. The girl's whole head was swollen, and her breathing was starting to rasp just as we were descending into Gaborone. Reports later said she was ok, but that it was a close call.



Caleb trying to figure out how to start this tractor in the village of Mochudi, about half an hour north of Gabs.