Heading out early, we cross the western
end of the Chobe National Park area along the main
route in a south - westerly direction to the
southern reaches
of the Okavango Delta and our destination, Maun.
The mean climatology
of MYI at the
end of May (inset figure) shows concentrations
of MYI that exceed 6 - tenths along most
of the northern
route and down through McClintock Channel, which is the main entrance to the
southern shipping
route.