Lately, Jack Caldwell has been having disconcerting daydreams about being woken up on the banks of the Zambezi River by a crocodile, and being dragged — sleeping bag and all — into the Mozambique waterway.
Charging hippopotamuses, snakes and bugs have also been playing on the 21-year-old University of Otago arts and commerce student’s mind as the reality of going on a 600km rowing expedition down the African river starts to dawn on him.
Because civilisation is sparse along the banks of the river, he and a team of about a dozen other rowers from around the world will be camping on the side of the river in the wild.
