Tuesday, 25 April. Now in Maun at the Maun Rest Camp which is just north of the town and situated near the river. The camp is very nice and we can recommend it for the good facilities and peaceful situation. The town itself is more developed than we had thought and lots of shops, market stalls with a cafe near the airport and internet cafe, and Barclays and Stanbic banks with ATMs. We plan two nights here so that we can catch up on supplies, see the town and perhaps take a flight over the delta. We visited the cultural centre and the Environment Centre but both were dissappointing. In particular the Environment Centre provides paths to walk in the reserve and see animals but we found the tracks poorly marked and the whole place run down as if it had been a vibrant place in the past. There is a lot of scope here to provide information about the area and wildlife in particular. We walked as far as the river but didn't see many animals, perhaps we were just unlucky! Later we decided to take a flight over the delta in a three seater and I got some photos of the water and the many islands. This was a great experience and gave us an impression of the vastness of the delta even though we just saw a fraction of it! Although there is a lot of green from the air, much is in shallow water with the grasses growing through, see the photo. We did spot groups of elephant as we flew as far north as chief's island and west to the Moremi reserve. I estimated from the GPS readings that the average river gradient from Drotsky's cabins to the Moremi reserve at the Third bridge was about 0.23 m/km, so very low indeed.