Pongola River mini-expedition and R & R ... photos just in!

Photos just in from the Cadets Pongola River* phase of their expedition ...  

  

*The Pongola River  (or Phongolo River) descends steeply from its headwaters in the Mpumalanga Provence of South Africa exiting the Lebombo Mountain range in KwaZulu-Natal below Lake Jozini. Here the river encounters the flat Mozambique coastal plain and seems to stretch out and put up its feet as it meanders casually between the 90 odd pans that make up the Pongola Floodplain - South Africa’s largest and most diverse freshwater ecosystem and a nature lovers paradise.