Devil’s Pool

Pa and Cece were left to watch the kids as we left early with Emily and Amos to take on the Devil’s Pool. Our pick up shuttle was early as we headed across the Victoria Falls bridge and across the border from Zimbabwe to Zambia. The border posts were… interesting.. as a power outage had affected their ability to process passports and visas. After what felt like 5 different people had handled our passports, we were on our way.
We caught a boat out to Livingstone Island in the middle of the falls, and were lucky to be sitting a row back as Emily and Amos became our bug catchers. At the island in the middle of the Zambezi river, we zipped through mini rapids, currents, rocks and animals to a place where we stripped down, limited our carrying material, and slowly waded into the waters.
It was our first view of the falls, and we were blown away. This deep ravine that seemed to be Africa’s sink! It seemed dicey and precarious to wade through these currents as only metres away was the edge but we got to the pools.
We took turns crossing the 4m deep pools where fish nibbled your toes and legs. After a few photos over the edge, you could feel the water pushing over the falls and drawing you in as well. You could peer down to see the misty bottom and a full circular rainbow.
After we swam back to shore again for a hearty breakfast and reminisce our experience.Read more