Wednesday 31st
Mileage 69506
Happy Halloween! Needless to say there
is nothing halloween orientated in Africa!
Its was really fun today, Gert (the
organiser) only created our route last night and when we drove it we
were often following the GPS and travelling where no other cars had
been, there were no tracks and the grass in places was taller than
the cars, I think we even drove through an allotment at one point!
Fitz and Stan were on the ball though and stopped to pick up a melon,
it was of a strange variety we later discovered when we ate it, it
tasted more like cucumber!
Erik had a brake oil leak from the
master cylinder about 70kms before camp and unfortunately the
mechanics had not done as they should but had gone ahead and we
needed a seal to fix the leak! Dad and I raced off in Laura to try
and catch the mechanics, we reached a garage and found one of the
mechanic teams but not the one who carries spare parts, he was so far
ahead he was not able to be reached on the radios they carry, so Dad
and I went back and decided to work with Erik and fix it the african
way, a bolt and some PTFE tape and he was bodged enough to carry onto
camp....It was Laura to the rescue :)
This camping place had wooden huts to
sleep in with mosquito nets and a little private 'bathroom' under the
stars, with a real toilet which flushed (with a bucket) and a warm
shower. To shower under the stars was really nice.
This camp also had permanent residents,
not crabs this time but desert frogs! They were really cute and well
disguised in the sand.
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