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Monthly Archives: December 2018
Saturday 15th December
Left Kei at about 9am to go to East London airport, dropped off the car, flight on time and arrived Jo’burg airport at 1.30. Couldn’t check in until 4pm. Put our luggage in storage and went across the road (20 … Continue reading
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Friday14th December
Took a little drive around Kei, had a cuppa at Yellowwood , a very interesting campsite and coffee house. Walked the beach at Morgan’s Bay and had lunch on the Deck, part of the hotel. Last day with Jeff and … Continue reading
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Thursday 13th December
Took a trip via the ferry across the river and took the gravel road cross country through the spread out villages of the Transkei. Had lunch at Trennery’s a small hotel on the coast, very pleasant. Went for a drink … Continue reading
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Wednesday 12th December
Chilled most of the morning, Irene and Cheryl shopped a little and I helped Jeff with a little gate problem. Jeff suggested we take the two canoes down to the river, the tide was coming in so we started at … Continue reading
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Tuesday 11th December
Left Hout Bay at 8am to Cape Town airport for our flight to East London and on to Kei Mouth up the Wild Coast to visit Jeff & Cheryl. Another smallish 40 seater jet and this time we were charged … Continue reading
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Monday 10th December
Went into CT via our favourite shop Weylandts and drooled over some of the furniture etc. Bought a couple of packable nick knacks. Spent a few hours at the new Silo Musuem on six floors of the old grain silos … Continue reading
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Sunday 9th December
Woke to a beautiful view over Hout Bay. Today we met Dave and Renate. They came here for coffee then we took a trip to the weekend market at the end of the bay. We remembered more stalls last visit … Continue reading
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Saturday 8th December
Bit cool and cloudy first thing. Went to Kalkbay and had coffee, browsed the shops and Irene bought some tops and shoes. On to Camps Bay and had a bite to eat. Weather warmed up and the sun decided to … Continue reading
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Friday 7th December
We left Monte Bello in Windhoek at 7.15am for the airport. Our flight to Cape Town was at 9.20am. The airports about 40km out of town, looking for a flat place for an airport! We arrived in CT at 11.20 … Continue reading
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Thursday 6th December
We were woken just before dawn by the deafening roar of a lion not far from the camp. Nobody actual saw them but the noise was chilling. It meant we we up early for our last five hour drive to … Continue reading
Wednesday 5th December
Left Onguma for our last nights stop in the bushcamper at Okaukuejo Rest Camp about 140 kms drive. Took it slowly and stopped at various waterholes and took a few detours some of which were successful and others not. One detour … Continue reading
Tuesday 4th December
Our camp for two days is just outside the park so had to re – enter today. Drove around Fishers Pan, no water in any of the pans. No cats at all today but lots of other game and birds. … Continue reading
Back in land of the living!!
After 5 or 6 days in the wilds without internet and spasmodic network signal we can now catch up with the blog. Only had one slightly concerned friend wondering if we were ok as he hadn’t heard any news and … Continue reading
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Monday 3rd December
Left Olifantsrus Camp at 6.15 for the long drive to the Far Eastern side of Etosha for our two night stay at Onguma Rest Camp which is actually within a private reserve that ajoins the main park. Stopped at most … Continue reading
Sunday 2nd December
Left Khowarib about 8am, after paying our bill. En route to Etosha, Olifantsrus Camp. We stopped on the way for diesel, they had it at Palmwag. Then shopping at Kamanjab, basic, but it worked. Even managed the post Kalahari Magnum! … Continue reading