22-24 August 2018 Two days to get home, we decided – a push, but we decided to give it a go. Swakopmund gave us its customary foggy farewell as we drove towards Windhoek. It really is a pleasure driving on Namibian roads, so we flew along nicely. We pushed through to Gruenau, and had booked …
Day 7- 10 Sunday 27 May to Thursday 31 May 2018 The day started at Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp with tea, shower, and packing Klippie, while watching an elephant saunter by, have a back scratch on a tree, before disappearing down to the river. A family of banded mongoose made incredible efforts to raid the …
Day 4 Pretoria to Satara Camp, Kruger National Park After a Murray breakfast, we left Pretoria just before 8 am, and drove via Witbank to Orpen Gate, KNP. We stopped in Belfast at the Spar to stack up on fresh food and packed our little fridges to the brim. Another essential stop in Dullstroom for …
D-Day = Departure Day – 21 May dawns, tea, breakfast with the kids, and the last packing… and it is raining. At last I am feeling excited, still stuff I haven’t done that I wanted to before we left, but too bad. At 8:44, odometer zeroed, we headed off. Audiobook started after about 5 mins …