Up at six for an early morning drive along the river as per yesterday. Not as much game about as last night but suddenly as we left the river a large pride of lion right in front of us. Daddy, mummy and cubs of various ages. Brilliant. Such a lovely site, one everybody wants to see in the bush. Back to camp for breakfast and a serious discussion re petrol. We have just found out that an important place for filling up with petrol, Rakops, before we enter the Central Kalahari for five days, hasn’t had any for the last two months. Ugh! Have we got enough to get us in and out and to the next petrol station. After calculating our expected mileage we are sure we will have enough!!
Early evening drive after spending the day in camp. So hot. Made a decision not to chance the petrol situation and to drive out of our way to Motopi to fill up tank. This means we will only have used 70 k’s of diesel before entering the park and not 290 k’s. These four and a half litre engines use a lot of fuel but we do have two 90l tanks. The often very deep sand doesn’t help consumption.
